We picked a “festive” thriller and plunge into a snowbound replica town where traps, cameras, and polite gatekeepers turn survival into a rigged game. We track the clues, debate the ethics, and wrestle with a final twist that flips victim and predator.

• star ratings split and initial expectations
• setup of Eddie’s abduction and the vintage town
• forming the group and spotting surveillance
• church shelter, booby-trapped “comforts,” and Tank’s death
• perimeter search, bear attack, and rising stakes
• bunker discovery, hunt archives, and the access tunnel
• carousel set piece and the predator’s fate
• hardware store explosion and trauma bond
• dawn meeting with the gatekeepers and twist reveal
• adaptation fancast and closing reflections

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We sit down with Jessica Everly to explore Roses in Rome, a tender, emotionally intelligent romance where grief, forgiveness, and agency shape a love story rooted in place. Rome becomes a mirror for healing as Joey and Sienna choose each other without cheap drama or shortcuts.

• choosing Rome as a living catalyst for Sienna’s healing
• why Joey is a steady, emotionally present hero
• alternative endings cut in development
• crafting Father Fiore as a true spiritual guide
• Giuseppe as the road not taken
• hospital and Pietà scenes as grief touchstones
• adoption and pregnancy as a full family arc
• the sister dynamic and learning to show up
• querying rejections and the self‑publishing pivot
• cover design choices and author process
• what Jessica is writing next

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A single bouquet sets off a chain of goosebumps. We dive into Roses in Rome by Jessica Everly, a clean romance that starts with coffee drops in a Chicago law office and ends with a hard-won happily ever after braided through grief, family lore, and the art of choosing each other again. We follow Sienna—shell-shocked by a career setback and a devastating miscarriage—as she flies to Rome with her mom, stumbles into a priest who sketches between Mass and metaphors, and slowly reclaims her voice with a pencil, a plaza, and a mystery: why did the family’s flower order jump from eleven roses to twelve?

We rewind the Chicago timeline that made us swoon: a desk coffee courtship, a street festival first dance, a museum date that blooms into a rose garden proposal. Then we sit with what comes next: shattered routines, resentment born from different grief clocks, and work as a refuge that becomes a wall. In Rome, the legend of florist Lorenzo and a string of annual bouquets leads to Dona’s journals and a truth that reframes everything—love can survive repeated loss when it’s marked, remembered, and shared. No love triangle bait here; Giuseppe is a mirror, not a detour, and the Vatican scenes remind us that art can hold what words can’t.

The Florida chapter is where courage shows up. Sienna knocks on Joey’s door to apologize, and what could have been melodrama turns into something braver: two people naming what hurt, what was missed, and what they still want. On a quiet boat ride, forgiveness lands. The epilogue pays it forward with adoption, a surprise pregnancy, and a bouquet that grows to thirteen roses—a living ledger of love, loss, and legacy. If you’re searching for second-chance romance, clean storytelling, healing after miscarriage, and a touch of travel and art, this one will leave you teary, hopeful, and texting a friend.

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