April Flowers

Years after a family tragedy drove her off Nantucket, a lonely florist gets a second chance at love. But can she overcome the past?

Margot is owner and head florist at Margot’s Blooms, a slice of heaven in Beacon Hill, Boston. With few friends and fleeting romantic relationships, Margot’s career is her life. Now that she’s thirty-eight, perhaps it will stay that way: lonely but somewhat satisfying.
But everything is about to change.
Out of the blue, Margot’s ex-sister-in-law Samantha Coleman contacts her with news: Margot’s mother has Alzheimer’s. Because Margot’s brothers and sisters have abandoned her, she’s all alone. Can Margot help?
Jolted out of her Boston-based sleepwalking, Margot returns to Nantucket and to the cruel mother who chased her away in the first place. Margot’s mother blames her for for the tragedy that happened twenty years ago. Margot realizes she believes her mother; that she’s spent all this time thinking her father’s death was Margot’s fault. But what if she’s wrong?
Margot’s return to Nantucket brings a host of strange occurrences. Chief amongst them is Margot’s run-in with a teenage girl she’s never met before; a girl who breaks into her mother’s boat house; a girl she soon learns is Noah Carson’s niece, Avery.
It’s a surprise to learn that Avery knows Margot’s name. What else does she know about Margot and Noah? What else did Noah tell her?
And then there’s Vic Rondell, Margot’s mother’s “friend,” or so she calls him. He’s forty-something and handsome and charming, and Margot has no idea why he’s hanging around her mother. Is he after her money? The house?
Margot’s sure he’s there to take advantage of her. She’ll stop at nothing to get in his way and protect her mother.
But as Margot dives into her mother’s diaries and learns more about her family’s past, pieces of the puzzle click into place — and she discovers far more about her mother, Vic Rondell, her father, Noah, and herself than she ever dreamed she would.

April Flowers is book twelve of The Coleman Series series, a heart-wrenching yet hopeful family drama that unfolds between the glittering shores of Nantucket Island and Martha’s Vineyard.