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The Wildflower Trilogy
(three novels in one volume)
Temple Secrets Series
(two novels in one volume)

The Wildflower Trilogy
Three books in one volume: The Secret Sense of Wildflower, Lily’s Song and Daisy’s Fortune.
This best-selling and award-winning family saga follows three generations of 13- year-old girls and their families from 1941 to 1982 Appalachia.




About Susan
Amazon and Nook #1 bestselling author Susan Gabriel writes with passion, humor and insight about Southerners, both wise and wounded; teens, both ordinary and odd; and the people who love them, both explicit and unconscious. While she at times has written plays, poetry and nonfiction (see her blog), Susan primarily writes southern fiction and short stories. Discover more about Susan Gabriel here.
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Resilience Dispatch – August 31st – Day 84
I will let Mr. Rogers do most of the talking today, except to say that it is the deep part of you that I also like. The part of you that is kind, compassionate, and courageously doing your best. May we all choose love over hate, peace over war, and justice over greed,...
Resilience Dispatch – August 28th – Day 83
What is the most courageous thing you’ve done lately? Becoming a parent may be the most courageous thing I’ve ever done overall. Or maybe it was becoming a writer. Or maybe it was getting out of bed this morning. Courage is relative. It depends on the person and the...
Resilience Dispatch – August 25th – Day 81
Although I’ve talked about self-kindness before, I want to circle back to it. In the 90s, when I was a licensed professional counselor in Charleston, SC, most of the women clients I saw did not think they deserved kindness or gentleness from anyone, and especially not...
Resilience Dispatch – August 21st – Day 80
Do you ever take naps? Sometimes in the afternoons after a full morning of writing, creative exhaustion sets in. If I don’t have anything else going on, I will lay on my bed for a quick snooze. This feels like such a luxury. As a girl growing up in Knoxville,...
Resilience Dispatch – August 17th – Day 79
Can you imagine going through a pandemic without reading books? It's hard for me to even go there. Reading is a huge part of my everyday life. As I write my novels, I am also reading them. The editing process is reading the story over and over again and making the...
“When Queenie is unsuccessful in hiding her smile, Iris shoots her a look that could stop a wildebeest in a dead run.”
— Temple Secrets