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Flowers play a key role in many of life’s most memorable occasions. From weddings to graduations, they are a way to speak without words—a physical offering of love and affection.
Of course, florals are also deeply tied to spring, the season of renewal, in which new beginnings feel possible. Bears emerge from hibernation, insects begin to buzz, and, you guessed it, flowers burst into bloom.
Coming in all different colors, from pinks and reds to blues and greens, there is so much beauty to behold when looking upon a flower. In response, many emotions can arise: often those warm and fuzzy ones.
Inspired by that sentiment, we’ve gathered eight books in bloom—stories that not only feature florals on their covers and in their pages, but also capture the feelings they evoke. Like a bud on the cusp of opening, embrace the many possibilities of spring in these tales of magical realism and familial love.
The Library of Flowers (Deluxe Edition)
The Hua women have a secret. They can make magical perfumes, imbued with the essence of flowers, that can change the minds of emperors and billionaires alike. In every fifth generation, the eldest daughter holds the rarest ability of all: to create true love.
That would be Lucy, but when she failed to receive the gift—to her mother’s dismay—she fled everything she held close in Vancouver, for Toronto. In Kensington Market, she’s begun a new life, creating normal, everyday scents—until a death in the family draws her back into the past, and the House of Hua.
Where the Wildflowers Grow (Deluxe Edition)
Leigh Wilde is the last in her bloodline, and it seems that tragedy follows her everywhere she goes. So, when the bus taking her to prison flips, killing everyone besides her, it’s no surprise.
She manages to find refuge in the unexpected, a flower farm in rural Alabama, where she meets the owner, Jackson. He’s intent on helping her rebuild, not by pushing away the past, but by embracing the future—like the bloom happening all around her.
But Jackson has no idea what ghosts Leigh is truly dealing with—and they are beginning to catch up to her.
The Forbidden Garden
Sorrel Sparrow has spent her life nurturing her passion for plants and flowers on the New England coast. But, an opportunity calls her across the sea to a Shakespearean garden in the English countryside—in dire need of some tender loving care.
At Kirkwood Hall, she meets the owner, Sir Graham Kirkwood, and his wife Stella, and immediately senses heartbreak and even some magic in the soil. She decides to learn more about the house’s history and finds a companion in Stella’s intriguing brother.
Although she knows her home is on the other side of the world with her sisters, Sorrel can’t help but be drawn into the garden’s past—as she’s sure it holds the key to her own.
Must Love Flowers
After losing her partner and sending her children off into the world, Joan Sample has grown tired of the life she’s leading. With her sister’s encouragement, Joan decides to take some steps in the right direction: hiring someone to work on her garden, joining a support group, and renting out a room.
On the other side of town, Maggie Herbet is working to pay herself through college, taking care of an alcoholic father, whose condition is only worsening. When she sees a room for rent at Joan’s, it seems things are finally looking up.
As their budding friendship is tested—when Maggie falls for a customer and Joan finds herself drawn to the landscaper—the pair will have to open themselves to change like never before.
The Heirloom Garden
Iris Maynard, as a way to cope with the loss of her husband in World War II and her daughter’s illness, turned her attention to something new: flowers. She’s built a garden lush with life, from daylilies to roses, and tends to them at all hours.
But when Abby Peterson moves in next door, with a harrowing past of her own, Iris contemplates what it would be like to cross the fence. As Iris and Abby grow closer, they bond over their love for flowers—and, in the process, learn it’s possible to begin again.
The Language of Flowers
In the Victorian era, flowers had a language, used in romantic occasions—from honeysuckle for devotion to red roses for love. But Victoria Jones has found other reasons to employ this means of communication.
Having grown up in foster care, she has found that flowers and their meanings are her only ties to the world. Now, she’s eighteen and has grown out of the system, and decides to use her gift on others.
But, a chance encounter with a charming stranger shows her that maybe there are risks worth taking in life.
The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
The Montoyas have learned to coexist with the unexplained. When their matriarch, Orquídea Divina—a woman who has never left their home in Four Rivers—invites them to her funeral, it seems they will finally get the answers they’ve wanted.
But when Orquídea is transformed into a ceiba tree, they are only more confused. Years have passed, and Marimar, Rey, and Rhiannon have been bestowed various powers.
Soon, though, a mysterious figure begins destroying Orquídea’s bloodline—and the children must come together to uncover buried truths and save the family.
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