AuthorMarieMcKoy
[Teen Fiction Winner, 2025 Triple Moon Awards - 2025 Amby's Round Two Qualifier]
🌻🎸Inspired by the Dolly Parton song 'Wildflowers', WHEN WE WERE WILDFLOWERS is a coming-of-age novel with country roots about fierce friendship, budding romance, soul-crushing betrayal, and resilience of the wild feminine spirit.🎸🌻
When 13-year-old good girl Violet Wilson moves to a new housing development in a small Texas town, she finds an unlikely friend in wild child Poppy Cooper. They're instant besties, but there's one problem: Violet's high-class mom forbids the friendship. Poppy's troubled family and reckless behavior are dealbreakers.
After a dramatic turn of events brings Violet's picture-perfect family crumbling down, she leans on her older brother Teddy and Poppy for support. Everything is changing, including where Violet and Teddy will call home. The girls enlist Teddy's help to squeeze an epic bucket list of teen milestones into a few short weeks before the Wilsons move away.
It's all fun and games setting up a first kiss with Violet's crush, driving lessons, first job, and prom dates... until Violet discovers Poppy is keeping a devastating secret. Her betrayal threatens to destroy their friendship--and Violet's family--forever. Can these wildflowers weather the storm? Or was Violet's mom right about Poppy all along?
RATED PG-13: a little foul language, teenage subject matter, kissing, underage drinking at a party
TRIGGER WARNING: divorce, infidelity, incarcerated parent, dysfunctional family, car accident