When small town Louisiana girl Calla Lily Ponder encounters sweet, sexy, succulent love on the banks of the La Luna River, she thinks her future with Tuck LeBlanc is a given. But when he disappears into the Ivy League world which she will never be a part of, she must make her own way. Using the gifts of healing, which her mother gave her, Calla leaves the familiarity of her hometown and heads to the untamed city of New Orleans, where love and adventure and beauty school help her magical destiny unfold.

A shining new stand-alone novel with an entirely new cast of characters from #1 New York Times bestselling Ya-Ya author Rebecca Wells, illuminates the pull of first love, the power of life, and the human heart’s capacity for healing.