Veronica's Vision, a Remedies of the Heart Prequel Novella
About the book
Before Hawthorn’s Heart. Before Lacey’s Love. Before Glen Hollows became a place of healing—there were Veronica and Mario. In the summer of 1982, Veronica Floyd never expected a chance encounter to change the course of her life. Veronica, a recent high school graduate who sells herbal remedies from a roadside stand, dreams of adventure beyond the Georgia hills. She carries a deep-rooted love of the land and the wisdom of the plants passed down through generations—remedies learned in kitchens, gardens, and hedgerows. Her heart longs for more than the life she’s always known. Mario Hernandez, a young Marine preparing for his first duty station in Okinawa, Japan, is only passing through the Georgia hills. He carries the promise of adventure—and the quiet weight of leaving everything familiar behind. When their paths cross, sparks rise as quickly as the Southern heat. But first love is rarely simple. With military orders looming, family expectations pressing in, and futures pulling them in different directions, Mario and Veronica must decide whether what they’ve found is strong enough to withstand distance, duty, and time. Decades before their daughter Hawthorn returns home to Glen Hollows, this is where the story truly begins.
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About the author
Christina Gonzalez writes emotionally rich, culturally rooted fiction about grief, healing, family, and the surprising places love takes root. Her *Remedies of the Heart* series blends slow-burn romance and women’s fiction with herbs, gardens, food traditions, found family, and just enough humor to keep the heartbreak from having the last word. Born in Okinawa and shaped by years spent living in Mexico, Japan, Germany, Italy, and across the United States, Christina has long been fascinated by the ways people carry home, heritage, and memory with them. Her more than twenty years as a psychotherapist also inform the emotional honesty of her characters—complicated people who do not heal overnight or through romance alone, but through connection, courage, nature, and the occasional well-timed cup of tea. Christina now lives in Southwest Florida, where she writes, practices psychotherapy, studies herbalism, and attempts to transform her yard into a food forest. When she isn’t writing, she can usually be found growing herbs, inventing recipes inspired by her characters, or explaining why adding a new plant to her garden is entirely justified.
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