Publication Date: September 3, 2026
A secret garden. A moonlit reunion. And a chance to start again…?
Perched on a hilltop in the Cornish countryside, with the sea sparkling in the distance, lies a garden, once forgotten but recently rediscovered. As the sun sets over its gently crumbling walls every evening, two figures appear and quietly tend the soil at dusk. This is a place that heals the soul.
Gemma is here to find the version of herself she lost long ago. What she hasn’t expected to find is someone who understands her heartbreak all too well.
Leo is also trying to rebuild his life. He knows how to fix things around him with nails and a hammer. But if he tries to mend Gemma’s heart as he mends the garden, could he heal himself too?
Working side by side to uncover long-forgotten flowers in the garden, Gemma wonders if she’s planting the seeds for a whole new future for herself too.
But then one evening, it’s clear somebody else has been to the garden. Someone intending to destroy what they’re creating. Someone who needs to be stopped….
Can Gemma and Leo save the tumbledown, magical place that has saved them? Or will they lose the twilight garden forever?
An absolutely unputdownable story about lost love, second chances, and the importance finding your true self. Fans of The Last List of Mabel Beaumont, Sally Page and Amanda Prowse will adore this stunning, heartbreaking and yet uplifting novel of finding hope in the most unexpected of places.
Following her mother’s death, a woman struggles to move forward.
Author Emma Davies introduces heartbroken Gemma in The Twilight Garden. The misery just pours out of her character. Even her plans for a fresh start are abruptly ruined.
Accepting a position to help develop a smallholding project (aka a small farm) proves to be a solid distraction. While no wifi and a composting toilet might not be high on her preferred list of benefits, there’s something compelling about country life that allows her to breathe again.
When Gemma comes face to face with her ex, Leo, after 18 years apart, she discovers that he, too, is trying to rebuild his life. Together, they work on restoring a Victorian-style garden, only to get caught in the crossfire of someone determined to destroy the farm.
Both main characters, along with the farm owners, Rowan and Willow, prove to be adept at navigating tough situations.
The Twilight Garden offers an unexpected second chance at love for two people seeking a new beginning.
Emma once worked for a design studio where she was asked to provide a fun, humorous, and not necessarily true anecdote about herself for their website. She wrote the following: ‘I am a bestselling novelist currently masquerading as a thirty something mother of three.’ Well the job didn’t work out but she’s now a forty something mother of three and happy to report the rest of her dream came true.
She now lives in rural Shropshire where she writes full time from a shed in the garden.
