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Chapters
Chapter 1: The Lily on The Mantle
Chapter 2: The Man in The Café
Chapter 3: Roots and Ghosts
Chapter 4: Beneath The Roots
Chapter 5: Roots of Truth
Chapter 6: The Deepest Roots
Chapter 7: A Town That Remembers
Chapter 8: When The Roots Split
Chapter 9: Beneath The Last Lily
Chapter 10: Ashes and Echoes
Chapter 11: Secrets Beneath The Ash
Chapter 12: Ghost in the Ledger
Chapter 13: The Digging Hour
Chapter 14: The Watcher in the Rows
Chapter 15: Fire at the Fence Line
Chapter 16: The Gathering Storm
Chapter 17: Lilies in the Rain
Chapter 18: Under the Mother Tree
Chapter 19: The Ledger’s Price
Chapter 20: The Orchard’s Reckoning
Chapter 21:
Chapter 22: Rooted Voices
Chapter 23: Into the Hollow Again
Chapter 24: The Thorns Aware
Chapter 25: The Thaw Deepens
Chapter 26: The Last Stand
Chapter 27: Paper Roots
Chapter 28: The Orchard’s Promise
Epilogue: When Lilies Bloom
Author’s Note
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Chapter 25: The Thaw Deepens
By morning, the frost had given up its fight. For the first time in weeks, thin sunlight slipped through the orchard canopy, draping the wild rows in pale gold. Smoke still drifted from the toolshed’s chimney pipe — the last whispers of Ruth’s hush curling skyward, too thin to hold secrets anymore.
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