Delivery

By Diana Prusik

Description:

Livi finds new purpose in her troubled life when she joins her family's small-town florist shop. There, the strong and wacky Wilson's Florist gang monitors the pulse of Mount Helicon, where customers carry stories even the local newspaper does not contain. Tales of birth and death, sickness and sorrow, love and betrayal, and even forgiveness--Livi hears them all. Privy to some of the community's deepest secrets, she sometimes wishes she didn't know so much, especially when news arrives that a dear family friend is dead.

Faced with servicing his funeral, she is blasted with painful memories she's struggled for decades to ignore. Soon, guilt and grief over childhood and adult tragedies close in. Instead of turning to loved ones or God for comfort, she leans on alcohol, her long-time clandestine companion--but secrets rarely escape the close-knit flower shop crew, who makes Livi's business its own. Fumbling through life's challenges together, the Wilson gang often delivers more than flowers, yet when Livi needs delivery, can the bonds of faith and friendship dissolve her defenses?

Book Takeaway:

No guilt is too deep for forgiveness to reach. Our smallest words and deeds can spread the greatest love.

Why the author wrote this book:

For over three decades, I have witnessed how a flower shop acts as a community hub. As a floral designer, I've learned that sending, receiving, selling, designing, and delivering flowers impacts lives. The full range of human conflicts and emotions crosses a flower shop's threshold, and spirituality does, too. Since news circulates at a florist that even the local newspaper doesn't print, Delivery begged me to write it, and more flower shop stories are lined up, waiting to be told!