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304 pages, Hardcover
First published May 31, 2022
‘[S]he’d been a flower. Snipped from the root, quick to wild, temporary. She’d existed to be lovely and to be chosen. No one had expected her to last.’
After young Sara’s love life comes to a sudden end, she runs away from her home in Northern California to LA, hoping for a fresh start. With a lot of hard work and some personal compromises, she finally makes a name for herself in a successful restaurant.
Emilie, a Creole whose family originally came from New Orleans, is confused about what she wants to do in life. She takes a job arranging flowers for a restaurant, until the owner notices her and woos her.
When Sara and Emilie meet each other, the connection is immediate but their circumstances are such that they can’t speak openly to one another. How will Sara and Emilie bridge over the hurts of their past? Will they be able to put aside their insecurities in the hope of a joint future? Read and find out.
The story comes to us in the third person perspectives of Sara and Emilie.
“she'd been a flower. snipped from the root, quick to wilt, temporary. she'd existed to be lovely and to be chosen. no one had expected her to last.”