Welcome to Blackbird Springs
A Prequel
In a town where everyone knows your business and the bees spell out love advice, some summers rewrite your entire story.
Eighteen-year-old Junie Whitlow is ready to leave Blackbird Springs for good. Raised by her quirky, bee-loving family in a town where privacy is theoretical and romance is community entertainment, she's determined to trade sweet tea and small talk for a backpack and a one-way ticket out of Mississippi. College can wait, her heart's set on the world.
But when Junie takes a summer job at her aunt's Memory Tea Shop, where the whole town gathers for gossip, wisdom, and impossibly perfect tea blends, she doesn't expect the teas to stir more than memories... or for a traveler from halfway around the world to upend everything she thought she wanted.
Henry Darrow, on a gap year from Australia, walks into the shop looking for a quiet moment and finds something far more unexpected. A girl with honey in her hair, fire in her spirit, and a dream that echoes his own.
As blackberry blossoms bloom and the town watches their every move with invested delight, Junie and Henry fall into a first love that feels like magic. But with college acceptance letters arriving and Henry's visa expiring, August brings impossible choices and the kind of decisions that define who you become.
In a town where love stories become community property and everyone has opinions about your future, no one leaves Blackbird Springs unchanged.
A tender, nostalgic love story about memory, freedom, and the summer that changes everything—perfect for fans of Gilmore Girls and Sarah Addison Allen.
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A tucked-away small southern town where the air smells like honeysuckle, the blackbirds always sing before someone falls in love and a little bit of magic lingers just beneath the surface.
From tea shops that stir forgotten memories to lanterns that grant whispered wishes, the Blackbird Springs series invites you into a world of second chances, small-town charm, and heartwarming romance. Each book blends cozy magical realism with tender, feel-good love stories set against the backdrop of a close-knit community that feels like home.
Whether you're in the mood for a grumpy neighbor and a sunshine herbalist, a runaway hiding in a garden that blooms with secrets, or a single dad whose daughter dreams of a woman she's never met, there's a story waiting for you on every lantern-lit street.
Perfect for fans of Gilmore Girls, Virgin River, and the magical heart of Sarah Addison Allen, this uplifting series will make you believe that change is always coming—and love might be just around the corner.
Book 1
Some houses remember. Some hearts take time to reignite…
Willa Merriweather doesn’t believe in magic—until she inherits Sweetgrass Cottage. The crumbling house on the edge of Blackbird Springs has a wild garden that breathes, walls that hum lullabies, and a neighbor who glares at her through the overgrown sweetgrass like she’s personally offended the sky.
Beckett Knox isn’t just grumpy—he’s a storm wrapped in flannel. A former firefighter who fled his career after a rescue went tragically wrong, he’s back in Blackbird Springs to care for his uncle and disappear from a world that no longer makes sense. The last thing he needs is a sunshine-hearted stranger digging up the past he buried … or a cottage that insists on spitting mysteries at them both.
But when the sweetgrass whispers warnings and Willa uncovers a century-old love letter hidden in the walls—one that echoes Beckett’s own shattered heart—they realize the cottage won’t let either of them hide forever.
A tale of lost souls, second chances, and the quiet magic of coming home.
Book 2
In Blackbird Springs, some flowers bloom for the heart that needs them most.
When former supermodel Lena Marlowe trades her Manhattan penthouse for a ramshackle cottage in Blackbird Springs, she's hoping for exactly two things: solitude and a place where nobody knows her face used to grace magazine covers. What she gets instead is a garden that seems determined to grow impossible flowers overnight and a neighbor who keeps leaving perfectly ripe tomatoes on her doorstep like some sort of botanical fairy godmother.
That neighbor turns out to be Jonah Reed—gentle-eyed botanist, devoted son, and the boy who once taught her the difference between mint and basil during the best summer of her childhood. The problem? Between the accident that ended everything and the surgeries that rebuilt her face, she's become a stranger even to herself. And Lena? She's not exactly volunteering to explain why the girl he once knew has disappeared behind new features and old fears.
But gardens, like small Southern towns, have their own stubborn opinions about secrets. As morning glories climb toward impossible heights and roses bloom in defiant colors, the earth itself seems determined to uncover what Lena's buried. Between Jonah's patient kindness and the town's gentle meddling (looking at you, Mrs. Greene and your "helpful" herbal remedies), staying invisible becomes harder than growing orchids in Mississippi clay.
Some roots run too deep to dig up. Some loves are worth a little dirt under your fingernails. And sometimes, the most beautiful things grow in the places we thought were too broken to heal.
A tender, magical story about blooming where you're planted—scars, secrets, and all.
