Wildflower Heart
(2026)(The fifth book in the Serenity Crossing: The Hartwells series)
A novel by Tara Baisden
She didn't come to Serenity Crossing to fall in love. She came to disappear.
Tori Hamilton has spent nearly her entire life being managed by a powerful family who gave her everything except the one thing she actually wanted — to be loved for who she is. After a lottery win hands her the means to finally break free, she leaves Atlanta behind and drives to a small mountain town in Tennessee where nobody knows her name, her family, or the secret she's carrying. She buys a house, purchases a building for the flower shop she's always dreamed of, and begins building the ordinary, beautiful life her parents would call beneath her. But the fresh start she's counting on has a crack running through it — because the truth she left out of her new story is the one thing that could cost her everything.
Dave Hartwell is her next-door neighbor, her CPA, and the most quietly principled man she's ever met. He's also a man still carrying the sting of a broken engagement and the words that came with it — that his steady, rooted, carefully planned life would never be enough. But Tori's warmth, her boldness, and her stubborn refusal to let him stay guarded are rearranging the careful life he built.
As Tori sinks roots into Serenity Crossing — into her flower shop taking shape on Maple Street, into the Hartwell family who welcomes her like one of their own, into a small-town church where faith feels like coming home — she and Dave build something neither of them expected: a love that feels less like chance and more like an answer. But when Tori's past follows her into the mountains and the name she's been hiding comes to light, the trust they've built faces the one test it was never prepared for.
Tropes:
Tori Hamilton has spent nearly her entire life being managed by a powerful family who gave her everything except the one thing she actually wanted — to be loved for who she is. After a lottery win hands her the means to finally break free, she leaves Atlanta behind and drives to a small mountain town in Tennessee where nobody knows her name, her family, or the secret she's carrying. She buys a house, purchases a building for the flower shop she's always dreamed of, and begins building the ordinary, beautiful life her parents would call beneath her. But the fresh start she's counting on has a crack running through it — because the truth she left out of her new story is the one thing that could cost her everything.
Dave Hartwell is her next-door neighbor, her CPA, and the most quietly principled man she's ever met. He's also a man still carrying the sting of a broken engagement and the words that came with it — that his steady, rooted, carefully planned life would never be enough. But Tori's warmth, her boldness, and her stubborn refusal to let him stay guarded are rearranging the careful life he built.
As Tori sinks roots into Serenity Crossing — into her flower shop taking shape on Maple Street, into the Hartwell family who welcomes her like one of their own, into a small-town church where faith feels like coming home — she and Dave build something neither of them expected: a love that feels less like chance and more like an answer. But when Tori's past follows her into the mountains and the name she's been hiding comes to light, the trust they've built faces the one test it was never prepared for.
Tropes:
- Opposites Attract
Grumpy / Sunshine
She Falls First, He Falls Harder
Secret Identity / Hidden Past
Small-Town Newcomer
Found Family
Wildflower Heart is a clean, sweet, wholesome Christian contemporary romance with a kisses-only love story, faith woven gently through every page, and the kind of deeply felt happily-ever-after that will make you believe again that ordinary love is the most extraordinary love of all.
Genre: Romance
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