The Forget-Me-Not Library

By Heather Webber

Book Overview

A detour. A chance encounter. Two women who alter the pages of each other's story.

Juliet Nightingale is lucky to be alive. Months after a freak accident involving lightning, she's fully recovered but is left feeling that something is missing from her life. Something big. Impulsively, she decides to take a solo summer road trip, hoping that the journey will lead her down a path that will help her discover exactly what it is that she's searching for.

Newly single mom Tallulah Byrd Mayfield is hanging by a thread after her neat, tidy world was completely undone when her husband decided that their marriage was over. In the aftermath of the breakup, she and her two daughters move in with her eighty-year-old grandfather. Tallulah starts a new job at the Forget-Me-Not Library, where old, treasured memories can be found within the books--and where Lu must learn to adapt to the many changes thrown her way.

When a road detour leads Juliet to Forget-Me-Not, Alabama, and straight into Tallulah's life, the two women soon discover there's magic in between the pages of where you've been and where you still need to go. And that happiness, even when lost, can always be found again.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250369274
• ISBN13: 9781250369277
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.6" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Heartwarming comfort read

Thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for a digital advance reader copy. All comments and opinions are my own unless otherwise noted. When I want a comfort read, I know that’s what I’ll find in a novel by Heather Webber. Her books offer uplifting tales of love, hope, and personal redemption. This one checked those boxes along with the genres of family, romance, small town, libraries, books, and magical realism. The story introduces two main characters who are each grieving the loss of a person or a relationship and feeling lost and unsure of what their futures hold. In addition, this novel includes an element of magical realism. Through the book’s library cat, patrons receive a long-lost memory by smelling the scent of a book chosen for them by this cat. I know this sounds farfetched but go with it. Just like the name of the town, Forget-Me-Not. As explained in the novel, “Forget-Me-Not wasn’t just any old quaint Southern town. It happened to be a haven for the lost. The emotionally lost. Whether that be the heartbroken, the confused, the angry, the hurt, the misguided. Those needing a little extra help to mend their broken spirit were often led here. And then were forced to stay by their car suddenly breaking down. Only when they found the right path forward, toward healing, did the town turn them loose again. Very few stayed.” So if you’re looking for a feel-good novel with sweet and quirky characters, some romance and magical realism, plus a happy ending, this is the book for you.