The Woman By The Fountain (The Winter Garden Book 2)

Eleanor stopped painting the day her husband died.

Three years later, she has built a quiet life around the things she can bear—the familiar routines, the empty studio, and the careful distance she keeps between herself and anything that might ask her to begin again.

Then, one winter afternoon, she finds a gate where there has never been a gate before.

Beyond it lies the Winter Garden.

There are roses blooming beneath the snow, lanterns glowing along winding paths, a fountain that seems to remember things, and a mysterious woman named Coralia, who seems to know that Eleanor has been waiting for something she cannot quite name.

In the garden, Eleanor begins to notice the things she has forgotten how to see: the movement of water beneath the ice, the promise hidden in sleeping roots, and the possibility that a quiet season isn’t the same thing as an empty one.

But the garden doesn’t ask her to forget Thomas.

It asks her to consider something much harder.

What if moving forward doesn’t mean leaving love behind?

A gentle, atmospheric cozy fantasy about grief, hope, hidden growth, and finding your way into the next chapter of your life.

The Woman by the Fountain is a story from the world of The Winter Garden, where quiet magic finds those who need it most.