A Thirst For Wildflower

Love can taste like the burn of bourbon or like sweet rain in a desert. Graham McDeere once ruled Manhattan's courtrooms. Now he spends his days confessing to a whiskey glass and a half-listening bartender in a sun-bleached Nevada town where nothing much happens, except his slow unraveling. One drunken outburst cost him everything: the career, the penthouse, and the one woman he thought would never leave-his wife, Jessa. Then, Daisy arrives. A quirky botanist who rescues stray cacti, believes aliens might be shy neighbors and greets the world with unstoppable kindness. She's everything Graham isn't, and for reasons he can't fathom, decides to help him. Somewhere between the quiet hum of the Mountain West and the cold metal of the handcuffs binding them, Graham's defenses fray. The burn he used to seek in a glass of bourbon shifts to the curve of her smile and the heat of her skin. But secrets don't stay buried in the desert. Just as sobriety begins to take root and Graham finds his edge in the courtroom, his nights in the velvet warmth of her bed, the past comes rearing back with teeth. He is dragged back to his ex-wife and into a world of shadows he fought to escape, just as Daisy's secret surfaces sharp enough to bleed them both. Set against the raw, dusty blaze of 90s America, this is a story of a thirst that outlives the bottle; a journey of grit and grace, heat and humor, and the two women who shaped a man's soul: one who destroyed him, and one who taught him how to breathe again.

Pagina's: 261, Paperback, Independently published