She was the architect of their family’s ruin; the other was the one who got away. This beautiful, emotional, and unforgettable story is a complete standalone novel from the Goodbye With Love series.
Twenty years ago, a bitter fight at their mother’s funeral shattered the bond between Sable and Juna Blackwood. Sable, the fiercely logical architect, built a life of success and solitude in London. Juna, the free-spirited artist, ran away and never looked back. They were two sisters living in separate worlds, separated by a wall of silence and resentment.Until the diagnosis.
With only months to live, Sable returns to their childhood home in the Cotswolds with one final, impossible project in mind. She sends Juna a cryptic bucket listthree tasks that will force them back into each other’s orbits, back to the places that broke them.
Find a field of mythical wildflowers.Finish a garden full of ghosts.Fix a bridge that has been rotten for decades.
Juna reluctantly agrees, bringing her sharp-witted teenage daughter with her, and the reunion is a minefield of biting sarcasm and buried pain. But the list isn’t what it seems. It’s a map, laid out by their mother, designed to lead them to a devastating secret she took to her grave.
Forced to work together, the sisters must excavate the truth of their shared past and confront the real reason their family fell apart. With time running out, can they rebuild a lifetime of damage? Or will the secret they unearth be the one thing that finally tears them apart forever?
Wildflowers is a tear-jerking, yet ultimately hopeful, standalone novel of contemporary women’s fiction. It’s a story about the fierce, complicated, and unbreakable bonds of sisterhood, the power of forgiveness, and the courage it takes to say goodbye.
Genre: General Fiction
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