Wildflowers Remember Everything
In mid-century DeLand, Florida, an orphaned daughter inherits her mother’s diary and the secrets a respectable family spent decades burying. Sahara Sutter writes the kind of history old photographs leave out, part fairytale, part mystery, set in true Florida history. Sophie’s Wildflowers and Beyond the Garden God’s Houseplants are available now on Amazon.
About The Author
Decades of Listening Closely
Sahara Sutter spent years working in healthcare, the kind of work that teaches you how rarely people say what they mean. The space between what someone tells you and what they carry is where she learned to listen. That habit followed her into the world, through decades of travel and into the streets of DeLand, Florida, a town she has called home for over thirty years.
DeLand gave her the setting for both her novels but something harder to name too. The old fairgrounds, the houses along the Boulevard that look respectable from the curb. Every town keeps its secrets, and Sahara has always been more interested in what is underneath than what is on display.
She has long believed science and spirituality are not opposites but conversation partners, and that the most extraordinary lives belong to people who never expected anyone to write them down. That conviction runs through everything she writes. Her heroes are not kings or generals. They are the quietly resilient, the overlooked, the ones carrying more than anyone around them ever knew.
Our Books
Wildflowers, Gardens, and Ghosts
Two companion novels set in mid-century DeLand, Florida, following one family through generations of secrets and survival.
Sophie's Wildflowers
Part fairytale, part murder mystery: in 1950s-60s DeLand, Florida, young Sophie Sherman is caught between family secrets and a town on the edge of change. Decades later her orphaned daughter inherits the diary that tells the truth.
Beyond the Garden
Cindy Peterson inherited a fortune from a grandfather she never knew, along with a loneliness no amount of money could fix. A chance encounter with a kind healthcare prodigy begins to show her what she has been searching for: home.
Our Blogs
From Sahara's Notebook
Real DeLand history, behind-the-page notes, and the people who inspired these two books.
Finding the Extraordinary Within the Ordinary
Sophie’s Wildflowers: Discovering Your Past – For the First Time
Readers reviews
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