When a tragedy leaves a divorced couple with guardianship of their friends’ little girl, Laurel and Gavin drop everything for the sake of the child. Meanwhile, a case worker begins searching for a more suitable arrangement, and the estranged couple move into their friends’ home to provide temporary care for Emma and manage the on-property apple orchard. As they work together to comfort the grieving child and manage the busy harvest, tempers flare—as does the passion they both remember so well. But will the seeds of love, still growing inside them, thrive and flourish? Or will grief and regret strangle the feelings before they can fully blossom?

Not your typical romance in that we don’t really watch the romance bloom between Gavin and Laurel in the present, though there is a bit of time spent on the past, showing how they got together in high school and ended up married (and eventually divorced). It also started on a pretty sad note — the deaths of their friends.

Overall, the book was okay but highly predictable. There wasn’t much in the past scenes (from high school/college) that couldn’t have been figured out. Personally, I would have rather seen more happen between Gavin and Laurel as adults, as most of the romance in this book actually happened in their past.

It wasn’t necessarily a bad book, but I’m not a fan of split timelines (which I didn’t know this was until I started reading). If you like split timelines, you’ll probably enjoy this book. It reminded me a lot of Sweetbriar Cottage.

Rated PG. Get your copy here!

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