Let The Wildflower Bloom Series by Luann Reynolds

Envision if you will, driving a winding mountain road at twilight and your concentration is broken by the appearance of a stunning, red haired woman in 1800's attire. Intrigued, you brake instantly and check the mirrors to see nothing. She has disappeared. Was it an apparition, a trick of light or a disparaging soul? Whatever it was, Luann Reynolds made a connection, the flood gates opened and she channels the woman's life experiences. She began to write, and several books later, hasn't stopped... moreEnvision if you will, driving a winding mountain road at twilight and your concentration is broken by the appearance of a stunning, red haired woman in 1800's attire. Intrigued, you brake instantly and check the mirrors to see nothing. She has disappeared. Was it an apparition, a trick of light or a disparaging soul? Whatever it was, Luann Reynolds made a connection, the flood gates opened and she channels the woman's life experiences. She began to write, and several books later, hasn't stopped. Thus began the story of Sarah Maragaret Mathieson, a privileged "Southern Belle", at the age of sixteen, during the Civil War in Savannah, Georgia. Edwin, her true love, marches off to war. She is forced to leave the only home she has ever known, witness the gruesome deaths of her parents and struggle to free her only sister from death in the low country marshes. Sarah inherits the responsibilities of being the head of household and learns the art of resourcefulness and herbal medicine. After waiting for Edwin for two years, she lays him to rest. Sick of death and war, she leaps at the chance to marry an older man, a doctor, who promises a new life in Chicago. After establishing a life there, her husband than abruptly moves them west for his own motives during the gold and silver rush. This is a story of true love broken, passionate dreams dismantled and life threatening events that prove Sarah's mettle. It encompasses a woman's capability to adapt to a masculine world while retaining her feminine sensuality in roles as wife, mother and lover. The reader will become emotionally engaged with Sarah as she develops her intuitive side and collects pebbles as keepsakes to remember significant events. Surprises abound when Sarah discovers her first love is alive and her husband may not be who she thinks he is. less

Inspector Hugo Sutherland makes a surprise visit just as Alexandra is leaving on the train to Baltimore for Rebecca’s wedding. He divulges shocking news of her supposed late father and she becomes the messenger to disclose her father’s secrets to John, Rebecca and family. When visiting the Reynolds Plantation in S.C., Alex’s curiosity gets the better of her and she enters a forbidden, locked room, and confronts the ghost of the late Brenda Connor Reynolds... moreInspector Hugo Sutherland makes a surprise visit just as Alexandra is leaving on the train to Baltimore for Rebecca’s wedding. He divulges shocking news of her supposed late father and she becomes the messenger to disclose her father’s secrets to John, Rebecca and family. When visiting the Reynolds Plantation in S.C., Alex’s curiosity gets the better of her and she enters a forbidden, locked room, and confronts the ghost of the late Brenda Connor Reynolds.Riding the high seas to the Island of Bimini in the Bahamas aboard her Uncle’s ship, the Spice Queen, Alex finds out the sea is in her blood and explores the tropics with the handsome and passionate J.W. Reynolds. Is he the cool and collected bachelor that she thinks he is or does he fall in love with the blonde, sensual beauty he knows as Vicky? less