Where the Wild Roses Bloom

A frantic phone call drags June Porter out of her fast-paced life in Knoxville and behind the wheel of her truck, racing through a mountain squall toward the Appalachian hometown she swore she'd never return to. Lillian, the grandmother who raised her, is dying, and the secrets June thought she'd buried are already clawing their way out of the hollow. Waiting at the diner where they once met as teenagers is Wyatt Calhoun, the man who broke her heart and never explained why. Now a man of few words and too many shadows, Wyatt offers her a ride into town and a silence that says everything he won't. As June settles into the porch light of her grandmother's house, she finds letters, journals, and whispers of a woman named Maren Jenkins, a woman whose fate is tangled with Lillian's in ways June never imagined. A local developer, Elliot Hale, is circling the Porter land with offers that feel like threats, and a man named Tobias Crane seems to know more about the old crimes than anyone should. With the mountain fog pressing in and her grandmother slipping away, June must untangle two generations of lies before the truth, and the choice it demands, disappears with the last of the wild roses.