Caleb Steele once promised he would never come back.
Aster Leclair built their life around that promise.
Five years later, the flower shop hums with quiet routine — scissors through stems, morning coffee, laughter soft enough to hide the ache. Aster has learned how to live without him, how to make beauty from what was left behind. Until one afternoon, the bell over the shop door rings… and the man who swore he’d stay gone is standing there.
He’s older now, steadier, still wearing the same half-smile that undid them once. His return cracks the calm Aster spent years tending. Between bouquets and late-night confessions, the line between forgiveness and love begins to blur.
Set in the humid glow of Georgia, The Second Bloom is a story about the promises we keep, the ones we break, and the kind of love that refuses to die quietly — it roots, it waits, and when the light returns, it blooms again.