{ "item_title" : "Still Standing In Azalea Point", "item_author" : [" Chloe Luxley "], "item_description" : "Wade Rola died on a Friday morning.By Friday evening, Ruth had tucked in five children and fed the animals, locked up the barn, and made sure everyone had what they needed. She knew how to keep going. It was the one thing she had always been certain of.What she didn't know was how to stop.In the months that follow, Ruth Rola runs Rola Farm with the quiet efficiency of a woman who has decided that forward is the only direction available to her. Five children. A working farm. A community that loves her and doesn't quite know how to help. And a grief she has never fully sat down with, because sitting down feels like the one thing she cannot afford.She is not bitter. She is not broken. She is simply a woman who has gotten very, very good at being fine.Then an agricultural consultant arrives - sent, it turns out, by a phone call Wade made before he died, planning a future he never got to see. The consultant is knowledgeable and serious and entirely focused on the work. And Caleb Rofe, Wade's best friend since they were boys, keeps showing up on Monday nights to take out the trash. Not because anyone asked him to. Just because he noticed it needed doing, and Caleb has always been the kind of man who notices.No one is asking anything of Ruth.No one is pushing. No one is rushing. No one is telling her it's time.That is exactly the problem.Because Ruth has built a life so well-managed, so carefully held together, that there is no longer any room in it for the things she might actually want. And wanting feels dangerous when you have five children watching you and a farm depending on you and a community that needs you to be the strong one.But the south row Wade planted comes back every spring without being asked. The azaleas bloom whether or not anyone tends them. And some things, it turns out, do not wait forever.Still Standing in Azalea Point is a story about grief and grace. About the difference between surviving and choosing. About what it looks like to love again - not instead of the love you lost, but alongside it, in the same heart, with enough room for both. It is a story about a community that shows up without being asked, about children who are watching more carefully than anyone realizes, and about a man who has been quietly, faithfully present - not pursuing, not pressing, simply there - waiting for Ruth to be ready to see him.It is also a story about what it means to be the strong one. And what happens when the strong one finally allows herself to need something.Azalea Point is the kind of town where people know your name, remember your history, and show up with food before you know you're hungry. Where the azaleas come back every spring and love, when it comes, comes quietly - the way it does when it intends to stay.Perfect for readers who love Debbie Macomber, RaeAnne Thayne, and Susan Wiggs - warm, deeply emotional small-town romance with real grief, genuine community, and a love story that earns every page.Still Standing in Azalea Point is Book Three of the Azalea Point Series. Each novel stands alone, but readers who begin at the beginning will find familiar faces, a fully inhabited world, and a town that feels more like home with every book.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/899/980/9798999806468_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "19.99", "online_price" : "19.99", "our_price" : "19.99", "club_price" : "19.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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