Publication Date: May 5, 2015
Publisher: Berkley
The author of The Union Street Bakery presents a new novel about a woman
searching for a fresh start—while unable to forget the past…
Adele “Addie” Morgan grew up in a house filled with pain and loss. Determined to live life on her own terms, Addie moves to the country and finds a job at a vineyard where she discovers stability, happiness, and—best of all—love with the kind owner, Scott.
But an unexpected call abruptly pulls Addie out of her new and improved life. Her sister has just given birth and Addie’s Aunt Grace wants her to return home to help the family—even if it means confronting things she’s tried so hard to forget.
When Addie arrives, she quickly realizes that she hasn’t truly let go of her former life, at least not completely. After making a surprising connection with her sister’s baby—and her sister’s ex-husband, Zeb—Addie must choose between her picture-perfect future with Scott and the family roots she thought she’d left behind for good…
Adele “Addie” Morgan grew up in a house filled with pain and loss. Determined to live life on her own terms, Addie moves to the country and finds a job at a vineyard where she discovers stability, happiness, and—best of all—love with the kind owner, Scott.
But an unexpected call abruptly pulls Addie out of her new and improved life. Her sister has just given birth and Addie’s Aunt Grace wants her to return home to help the family—even if it means confronting things she’s tried so hard to forget.
When Addie arrives, she quickly realizes that she hasn’t truly let go of her former life, at least not completely. After making a surprising connection with her sister’s baby—and her sister’s ex-husband, Zeb—Addie must choose between her picture-perfect future with Scott and the family roots she thought she’d left behind for good…
Traveling into uncharted territory has an
exotic, lovely sound to it.
The I-want-to-work-on-a-vineyard was officially
exorcised, and I wanted my city life back.
No one really cares about glue. Until it’s gone
and life falls apart.
Having read Mary Ellen Taylor’s Union Street Bakery series before this
one, I was of course expecting to love this new series just as much. Taylor has
a very lyrical style of writing, but it is not too cliché and has just enough
flow and rhythm to allow you to read quickly and be swept up in each of the
character’s lives. The main character, Addie, was very easy to connect to. She
was dealing with issues that were very believable for our society today and her
character was well-written. She had several issues from her past that have
found themselves suddenly reappearing in her future and this story tells how
she deals with all of that. I have really been in the mood for a lot of mystery
and historical fiction lately, and this book even added family secrets in
amongst all the other things I so desperately love. Before each chapter, there
was a brief flashback that allows readers to get a glimpse into Addie’s family
and know a little bit about their past. I loved those parts so much!
I am a huge fan of Southern Fiction! I love
books that take a tiny, sweet, quaint little town and set an entire series
there. This book takes place in Alexandria, Virginia, which is not that far
from my home state. I loved the setting and the cozy places where I was easily
able to picture the characters and actually hear the well-written dialogue take
place. I really enjoyed some of the secondary characters just as much as the
main ones. This book is not connected to the Union Street Bakery series,
meaning it is not necessary that you read those books first, but I highly suggest
looking into Mary Ellen Taylor’s other series because it is just as fabulous as
this one. Treat yourself with these cozy little reads this spring!
***A free copy of this book was provided to me
by the publishers at Berkley in exchange for my honest review***
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