

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
Susan Gabriel is an Amazon and Nook #1 bestselling author who lives in the mountains of North Carolina. Her novel, The Secret Sense of Wildflower, earned a starred review (“for books of remarkable merit”) from Kirkus Reviews and was selected as one of their Best Books of 2012. She is also the author of The Wildflower Trilogy (The Secret Sense of Wildflower, Lily’s Song, Daisy’s Fortune), Temple Secrets Trilogy (Temple Secrets, Gullah Secrets, Tea Leaf Secrets), Trueluck Summer, and other novels. Discover more about Susan here.
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