Ricki Wilde, heiress to a national funeral home chain, has never fit in with her picture perfect family. Her parents and three sisters are high achievers who blend effortlessly into the social scene of Atlanta's posh Buckhead neighborhood, while Ricki is a thrift store-loving aspiring florist with a popular plant-themed Instagram account and a history of public gaffes. So when a wealthy widow Ricki meets at work offers her the chance to start her own flower shop in the ground floor space of a Harlem brownstone, she leaps at the offer. But a new career isn't the only thing Ricki finds in Harlem. She also meets a mysterious, devastatingly handsome stranger with a secret that will change her life.

This is a dual timeline book that tells Ricki's story alongside flashbacks to the Harlem Renaissance (see Beyond the Book) a century ago, where a musician is trying to make a name for ...