Amid wild roses California poppies scarlet flax sweet rocket love-in-mist and of course plenty of dirt Wild Designs is a refreshingly honest and funny read that celebrates the almost-ready-to-bloom aspect of all our lives.Althea Farraday is a thirty-eight-year-old divorced mother of three who''s got a teenage son who''s a Buddhist a hypercritical sister who knows how to push all her buttons a job on the endangered species list and a love life to match. Just as she''s settling in to a comfortable level of chaos a near-perfect man enters her life. Equipped to steal her heart and help turn her passion for designing gardens into a new career Patrick Donahugh may be too good to be true.