Heartbeats and Roses

Florist Rose McDaniels is the unofficial matchmaker of Hartwood Falls and the owner of an adorable but highly opinionated cat. But it's her annual Secret Valentines, written in the Victorian language of flowers, that have brought together more happy couples than she can count.

Too bad the only person she can’t seem to help find love is herself. Try as she may, no one holds a candle to her childhood best friend, the dreamy, rascally boy who made her first believe in love . . . right before he left town with her heart.

When cardiac surgeon Liam Bradley, owner of a rambunctious dog, returns to Hartwood Falls for the first time in twenty years, his life is falling apart all around him. With his career at risk, true love is the last thing on his mind. Though, he traded romance for practicality long ago after losing his heart. Liam’s quiet retreat quickly turns upside, however, when running into the girl he left a secret message for all those years ago.

Then a freak accident finds this self-proclaimed cynic up to his ears in roses and love notes—all because of her. The helpless romantic childhood best friend who restarts his flatlined pulse.

Rose and Liam gamble their hearts and confess old secrets in this heart-warming tale of second chances and forgiveness.


For fans of childhood friends to lovers second chance steamy romance with a dash of humor, intelligent, sassy FMCs and the sexy, broody MCs who fall for them.