Once a Wallflower, Always a Wallflower

Minerva Templeton has a reputation for being, well, something of a recluse. A wallflower, if you will.  However, due to her grandfather’s demands, all that must change. She must travel to the wilds of Scotland to fetch a mysterious something. Minerva cannot fathom why she should be the one to have to bring home this object but if she does not, their grandfather’s fortune will go to a most underserving man. So off she sets to Scotland where she must brave all manner of awful things—things this wallflower avoids at all costs after a traumatic experience as a child.

But after the death of her beloved Grandpapa, she cannot help wondering if she should be brave. Bolder. Try new things. Like meeting a handsome Scottish farmer turned wealthy landowner. Like kissing him perhaps? Like falling desperately in love with the brooding, wonderful man? No, that’s a few too many new things. After all, there’s only so many new experiences a wallflower can have…