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When Wallflowers Wander
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 18 2026
Pages: 340
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.76 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Ellie Treadwell has spent ten years being careful. Ten years of quiet routines, safe choices, and a marriage that ended so gradually she barely noticed the silence until her husband left her for a woman half her age. She swore she'd never repeat her mother's mistakes-three marriages and a lifetime of running. And she definitely wasn't going to repeat her great-great-aunt Coralie's: a woman who waited by a window for forty-one years for a man who never came home.
Then a battered red van rolls into Millbrook, Arkansas, and Ellie's careful little life gets complicated.
Gavin Hale is fifty years old, divorced, and allergic to staying anywhere longer than it takes to fix what's broken and drive away. He's not looking for roots, and he's definitely not looking for the prickly, guarded woman running the hardware store her family has owned for a hundred and twenty years. But one month turns into a summer, and Ellie's ironclad rules-no promises, no future, no falling-start cracking under the weight of a man who shows up, and keeps showing up, without being asked.
As Millbrook rallies to save its historic Main Street from a big-box developer, and Ellie's family unearths a decades-old secret that could rewrite everything she believes about love and leaving, she has to decide whether the story she's always told herself about men like Gavin is actually true-or whether she's spent her whole life guarding a heart that was finally ready to be broken open.
When Wallflowers Wander is a slow-burn, small-town, second-chance romance about the men who leave, the women who wait, and the ones who finally learn the difference.
Book One in the Millbrook Series.
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