The Blue Iris

One flower market. Three decades seeded with secrets. Six lives uprooted forever.

TESSA LEWIS is finished graduate school and set to begin her Big Time Career (just as soon as she figures out what that actually looks like) and marry a lustworthy lawyer from Toronto’s most powerful family, who loves her to pieces. But life wasn’t always sunshine and roses, and when an unexpected encounter at a flower market sparks a puzzling childhood memory of the mother she lost too soon, Tessa puts her long-awaited future on hold to work there for one summer, determined to come to terms with the past.

At the Blue Iris Flower Market, everything is in bloom except the rag-tag, wildly dysfunctional crew, each hiding deep scars of their own. When Sam, the beloved but troubled man who runs the place, takes off without a word, Tessa and her clashing coworkers must band together in facing the very truths they've been desperately outrunning in order to save it, unearthing deeply rooted secrets, meticulously cultivated lies--and just maybe, everything they never knew they wanted.

A hope-filled, intricately woven story of chosen family, love tested beyond its limits, and the beauty that grows when we finally learn to let go, THE BLUE IRIS is a BookLife Editor's Pick, Kirkus 'Get It' Pick, NYC Big Book Awards Distinguished Favourite, and 2025 International Book Award winner. Perfect for fans of Clare Pooley's The Authenticity Project, Tracey Lange's We Are The Brennans, and TV shows Ted Lasso and This Is Us.

'Heightened emotions, palpable romance, and just the right amount of tension keep the pages flying.' -Bookview (Gold Recommend)

'A captivating read full of humor and heart.' -Kirkus Reviews

'A gorgeous literary novel.' -BookLife by Publisher's Weekly

'A story of found family, impossible romances, and the ghosts of the past, The Blue Iris is a riveting page turner as stunning as the blooms that fill the shop at the heart of the book.' -Grace O'Connell, Author of Magnified World