When Grammie Marigold tells Poppy Granger to run, to flee and be free, Poppy doesn’t hesitate.
Poppy only recognized the moment after Marigold put a spotlight on it. Freedom. She had a chance. A brief flicker of time to get out there and live in the real world.
If there was one thing Grammie Marigold believed in above everything else, it was love. Real love. True love. Love that didn’t care about her fortune. Didn’t care about status or society or opinion.
After what just happened at the altar during her sister’s wedding, Poppy is the scarlet woman. The outcast. The one everyone will whisper about.
Rather than sticking around to be sneered at, Poppy takes Grammie’s advice and ventures out into the world. The real world. The one far from the family name and expectation.
Poppy doesn’t believe she’ll find her Prince Charming on the city streets, all she wants to do is live. Life, as it turns out, has its own ideas and what’s supposed to be a simple apartment hunt turns into a reality she wasn’t expecting.
Holden Abernathy’s actions have made it impossible for Poppy Granger to remain in her new life.
Grammie isn’t happy to see Poppy back on the sprawling estate. Despite living in luxury, Poppy can’t say she’s happy about it either, but what was the alternative?
Holden’s bounty has stirred up the imaginations of the world. He seems hell-bent on doing whatever it takes to get her attention.
Leaving Turner and his family may have been the best course of action, but it proves hard to live with. No matter how Poppy tries to settle back into her old life, the Maddox family just won’t leave her thoughts. It doesn’t help that they’ve been accosted by the media eager to know more about her life beyond the estate.
When the Granger evening meal is interrupted by staff warning them that the grounds have been breached by a stranger, Poppy is more excited than alarmed. Her curiosity rises when she learns the intruder wants facetime with her. Her family panic, but Poppy wonders: who could be willing to go to such extreme lengths just to talk with her?