Love Among the Headstones
An M/M Romance

About this book:

Grumpy arborist Calum Foster sees Blackwood Hill Cemetery as a hazard zone—fifty-two acres of deadfall, collapsed vaults, and timber rattlesnakes. Sunshine landscape architect Julian Vance sees a romantic masterpiece: a secret sanctuary founded by two men in 1888 where queer Victorians buried their lovers beneath symbolic plantings and coded epitaphs. When a private foundation tasks them with restoring the grounds, Calum's chainsaw physics clash with Julian's poetic preservation—until they discover a hidden hemlock grove sheltering thirty unmarked marble stones, each bearing only initials and dates. To save the living canopy and the history beneath it, they'll have to trust each other with more than just root zones.

Between pruning saws and drafting tables, mud-splattered boots and linen shirts, grudging respect blooms into something neither man expected. Julian's fierce devotion to the cemetery's erased stories chips away at Calum's walls, while Calum's quiet competence becomes the foundation Julian never knew he needed. But the trust's board has other plans—bulldozers, access roads, and a deadline that threatens to pave over a century of hidden love. As storms gather and secrets surface from hollow oaks and forgotten letters, Calum and Julian must decide what they're willing to fight for: the trees, the truth, or the fragile, terrifying possibility of a future together.

Atmospheric, tender, and rooted in the quiet power of second chances, *Love Among the Headstones* is a slow-burn M/M romance where history whispers through the canopy, two damaged hearts learn to grow toward the light, and every headstone tells a love story that refused to be erased.