Confidence of Wildflowers - Micalea Smeltzer

🌼 The Confidence of Wildflowers by Micalea Smeltzer
For fans of Lucy Score and Colleen Hoover, this heart-wrenching, slow-burn romance explores forbidden love, healing, and the unexpected beauty that blooms in life’s most fragile places.

“I was eighteen. He was thirty-one. We were worlds apart. But right next door.”

Salem lives her life day by day, carrying the weight of a traumatic past and an uncertain future. She isn’t looking for love—until Thayer Holmes, the grumpy, guarded landscaper next door, enters her world with his quiet strength and the sweetest little boy she’s ever met.

When Thayer offers her a job as his nanny, she never expects her heart to get involved. But sometimes love finds you in the most unexpected ways… even when it’s the last thing you’re ready for.

💔 Tropes & Vibes:

• Age gap (18/31)

• Single dad + nanny

• Grumpy x sunshine

• Emotional, raw, and deeply romantic

• Healing from trauma & learning to trust love again

This story will break you open and put you back together in the most beautiful way.