Irene Martini

Olivia's Garden Irene Martini

Olivia Edwards is a teacher who started her garden to help her cope with a tragic loss and now uses her garden to teach her Advanced Biology students about life as well as science. She shows them that life can be beautiful at times and challenging to survive at times. In so doing unbeknownst to her, she is giving them life lessons that some never forget. Leif Holverson is a radiologist living with an ongoing nightmare from his past feeling that no one will ever want to love him because he has so much responsibility to care for disabled parents while dealing with a hateful brother and his wife both of which never allow to him have a life of his own always demanding he give all of his free time to helping with his parents who are bitter and angry after the accident that robbed them of a normal life. Meeting Olivia Edwards while working, he finds that his heart is drawn to her. Although denying himself the freedom to love, he finds that she and her garden have the ability to heal his broken family by revealing secrets that set him free from self inflicted restraints.