Jo was thrilled to have finally located the gazebo. In all the years she'd been renovating, not one property had one. It had been a romantic dream of hers ever since she was a little girl and she would finally have one all her own.

Growing up, she may have been more interested in the stuff her brothers liked, but that didn’t keep her from being a hopeless romantic. Jo was a voracious reader starting in middle school, and she lost her heart in the romantic classics. She dove into stories like Little Women, Emma, Wuthering Heights, and Somewhere in Time, frequently imagining herself as one of her favorite heroines. Sometimes she was Elise McKenna, brilliant and independent, or she was her namesake Jo March, passionate and strong-willed. But almost always her daydreams involved a romantic inter...

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