Welcome to Blackbird Springs
Book 1
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 2
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 3
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.
Book 4
In a town where stories have power, some books choose the people meant to love them.
When Grace Hamilton returns to Blackbird Springs to settle her late aunt’s estate, she expects a simple sale—not a creaky old bookshop with a mind of its own. The shelves rearrange overnight, first editions appear from nowhere, and the bell above the door rings for visitors who never arrive.
Leo Callahan, once a bestselling author and now the town’s most reclusive critic, has made the bookshop his refuge from unfinished chapters and lost words. He’s not about to let Grace—city-bright, sharp-tongued, and determined to “fix” everything—turn his sanctuary into a boutique café.
But as the two trade barbs and bookmarks, the shop begins to reveal its own story: love letters hidden in pages, margin notes that echo their arguments, and an unfinished manuscript that seems to know them better than they know themselves.
Some stories write you before you ever find them.
And some bookshops keep rewriting your life until you finally turn the right page.
A love letter to books, second chances, and the quiet magic of finding your story where you least expect it.
Coming March 2026
Book 5
At the edge of town, where the bees hum secrets into the clover, the Honey Tree Inn glows like a lantern for the lost.
Junie Whitlow runs the inn with open arms, homemade honey cakes, and a quiet kind of magic. The bees have always whispered to her when someone—or something—needs help.
Historian Mara Hartwell comes to Blackbird Springs chasing answers and solitude, not honey-sweet hospitality. She expects archives and silence—not Silas Kincaid, the rugged carpenter restoring the Honey Tree’s weathered barn, or an inn that seems determined to mend her heart.
Silas believes in wood, nails, and what he can hold in his hands. Mara believes in keeping her heart locked away. But as the inn works its gentle magic and the bees gather close, they begin to discover that healing—like honey—takes time, warmth, and a little faith.
A golden, hopeful romance about choosing joy after heartbreak and the sweet hum of coming home.
Coming May 2026
Book 6
They say the lanterns on the hill grant one true wish—if you light them with an honest heart.
Evie Wilde is used to wandering. With nothing but her sketchbook and a worn-out bus ticket, she drifts into Blackbird Springs just before the Fallfire Festival and takes a job at the Lantern House—a weathered inn turned wishing-lantern shop said to grant desires of the heart. Evie doesn’t believe in that kind of magic… until she meets James.
James Fletcher is a steady man, raising his bright, curious daughter alone. He doesn’t have time for dreams—or for the woman his daughter swears she’s been seeing in her dreams for months.
As lanterns bloom against the autumn sky and old wishes spark to life, three hearts must decide if love is worth the risk—and if sometimes, the light you’ve been chasing is already home.
A luminous, heart-tugging tale about belief, belonging, and the quiet magic of being seen.
Coming July 2026