First published 2026
Leigh Wilde has watched her entire family die. She carries their deaths with her as the transport bus takes her to prison. When the bus crashes and kills everyone except her, Leigh does what she has always done. She survives. She runs and finds herself at a flower farm hidden in rural Alabama. The farm shelters people who have rebuilt their lives from ruins. Jackson owns the farm and sees past the walls Leigh has built. He shows her kindness and pushes her to confront what she has lost. The rhythm of farm work and the flowers growing around her give Leigh something she has never had. Peace. She begins to believe she might deserve good things. She starts to heal. But survival has taught Leigh that peace never lasts. The truth about who she is follows her to the farm. The ghosts of the Wildes will not stay buried. When her secrets surface and threaten the people she has come to love, Leigh must decide what she will fight to keep.
Genres: fiction, literary-fiction, contemporary, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, redemption, second-chance
Setting: Alabama, Rural Alabama
Period: Contemporary
496 pages · Paperback · Sourcebooks Landmark