Where the Wildflowers Grow by Terah Shelton Harris

Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Goodreads, Essence, Sunset Magazine, SheReads, BookBub, and more!

Some stories arrive quietly and then take root. This is one of them.

From acclaimed author Terah Shelton Harris comes a poignant tale of survival and redemption—a novel that asks what it truly means to stop merely existing and start living.

Leigh is the last of the Wildes. She knows this because she watched them all die. Grief never fully fades, and even as tragedy haunts her, Leigh carries on. Survival is in her blood. So when the transport bus taking her to prison careens off the road—killing everyone but her—she does what she has always done. She runs.

What she finds is an unexpected sanctuary: a flower farm tucked away in rural Alabama, far from the world. And a found family who built something beautiful from the wreckage of their own lives. Especially Jackson, the farm’s owner, who sees straight through her defenses and offers her the smallest, most tender moments of grace.

Slowly, Leigh begins to bloom. Maybe she’s not too broken after all. Maybe, just maybe, she starts to heal.

But the past isn’t so easily buried. And when her secrets catch up to her, Leigh will have to face what she can truly survive.

A deeply moving work of literary and Southern women’s fiction, this is a book about hope, healing, and the fragile, stubborn business of starting over.

Pour yourself something warm, settle in by the window, and let this one carry you away. We think you’ll want to linger here a while.

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