Young professional Lillie has prided herself on living close to the vest. In all outward appearances, she is successful in her own right; living in a stylish St. Petersburg, Florida home; driving a named SUV; and wanting very little, financially. All of Lillie's life has led her to this outcome, or so she thinks. Then a letter arrives from her honorary aunt, Sophie Day, putting a new chapter into a story she thought she understood completely. Since meeting Lillie's mother years earlier, Sophie Day has been an important part of Lillie's life. Through the difficulties of single motherhood, to her mother's cancer diagnosis and death, Sophie was there. Lillie had always felt close to Sophie, feeling an openness and acceptance she seemed to lose in her relationship with her mother. Now, however, she would return to the world she valued so much as a child, yet overlooked as an adult. Under the clouded skies and sweeping groves of rural LaBelle Florida, a story unfolds of lives, seemingly simple, yet anything but. Told through journals and conversations, it's a history about coming of age in a time when all others are more important. It's also Sophie's story, as she talks about a time when she stepped outside the accepted norm, and her actions delivered consequences beyond her understanding, leading her to a life complicated with lies and betrayal. The Coming of Vines reveals the worlds created by denials and lies, whether the folks in LaBelle want to know the truth or not. The reader looks into a history that exposes the underbelly of rural life and then delivers them into an understanding and self-discovery in the present.