Jilted to Blossom

Isla, the youngest of the Kelly Sisters, wants stability—the kind she thought she'd found in an engagement she has walked away from. Brimming with creative energy, impatience, a newly diagnosed ADHD, and the aftermath of a car crash, she’s learning to navigate her recovery, medication, and the messy politics of family expectations, while trying to get her life back on track. When she meets Lenny, a quietly damaged kitesurfer with his own grief and an emerald ring he doesn’t know what to do with, they he offers steadiness and responsibility; she offers chaos and fun—and both offer the kind of honesty neither expected.

As storms—literal and figurative—reshape the lives around them, Isla and Lenny must decide whether to protect themselves or risk the vulnerable, clumsy work of learning another person. With laugh‑out‑loud banter, aching setbacks, and shoreline lessons in kitesurfing, forgiveness and trust, this is a story about how a shattered plan can become the path to a truer love. Will they build a life together, or will old fears and new obligations send them out to sea?

A clean, witty, slow burn, friends-to-HFN contemporary romance about healing from physical and emotional trauma through kitesurfing, family rules, growing up to be your true self, and learning to trust and love again- when your life is still falling into place.

The book is set in contemporary New Zealand, with its beautiful coastal locations, but also some difficult moments of (real) natural disasters as the background.