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When seventy-five-year-old botanist Betty Wilding disappears—again—her family immediately assumes she’s wandered into someone else’s greenhouse, forgotten the time, or followed an interesting leaf pattern across town. Betty has always lived slightly sideways from the rest of the world, a woman of notebooks, pressed flowers, and half-finished thoughts. But this time, she isn’t lost at all. She’s following a trail of memory and longing toward the man she once loved and the betrayal she never understood—one she’s finally ready to uncover.
Back in Willowend, her small town where secrets have longer roots than oak trees, her family rallies in the only way they know how: loudly, messily, and with far too many casseroles. Her sister Linda storms through town with a planner, a purpose, and a talent for making librarians nervous. Betty’s grown children try to track her down while untangling their own midlife tangles—not realizing that in the search for their mother, they may just stumble into a romance of their own.
Meanwhile, Daniel Wren, retired hardware-store philosopher and longtime wearer of tweed in inappropriate seasons, is searching too. He has nothing but old letters, fading memories, and a heart that never quite stopped waiting for Betty. Though decades have passed, he refuses to believe it’s too late for the truth—or for them.
As Willowend buzzes with gossip, wrong turns, and the occasional runaway garden tour, Betty and Daniel move steadily toward a reunion shaped by forgiveness, persistence, and the kind of love that grows stronger in the cracks of ordinary life.
Mildly Forgetful, Madly in Love is a warm, witty story about second chances, the beautiful messiness of memory, and what happens when love refuses to give up—even when you occasionally forget where you put your keys.