April Flowers (The Coleman #12)

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 Margots Blooms, a slice of heaven in Beacon Hill, Boston. With few friends and fleeting romantic relationships, Margots career is her life. Now that shes thirty-eight, perhaps it will stay that way: lonely but somewhat satisfying.

But everything is about to change.

Out of the blue, Margots ex-sister-in-law Samantha Coleman contacts her with news: Margots mother has Alzheimers. Because Margots brothers and sisters have abandoned her, shes 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. Margots mother blames her for for the tragedy that happened twenty years ago. Margot realizes she believes her mother; that shes spent all this time thinking her fathers death was Margots fault. But what if shes wrong?

Margots return to Nantucket brings a host of strange occurrences. Chief amongst them is Margots run-in with a teenage girl shes never met before; a girl who breaks into her mothers boat house; a girl she soon learns is Noah Carsons niece, Avery.

Its a surprise to learn that Avery knows Margots name. What else does she know about Margot and Noah? What else did Noah tell her?

And then theres Vic Rondell, Margots mothers friend, or so she calls him. Hes forty-something and handsome and charming, and Margot has no idea why hes hanging around her mother. Is he after her money? The house?

Margots sure hes there to take advantage of her. Shell stop at nothing to get in his way and protect her mother.

But as Margot dives into her mothers diaries and learns more about her familys 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 Marthas Vineyard.