Memories of motherhood and marriage are fresh for Julia Presley though tragedy took away both years ago. Finding comfort in the routine of running the Peach Orchard Inn, she lets the historic, mysterious place fill the voids of love and family. No more pleasure of a man s gentle kiss. No more joy in hearing a child call her Mommy. Life is calm, unchanging . . . until a stranger with a young boy and soul-deep secrets shows up in her Tennessee town and disrupts the loneliness of her world.
Linda Goodnight is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author and the winner of the Rita and other highly acclaimed awards for her emotional fiction. Active in orphan ministry, this former nurse and teacher enjoys writing fiction that carries a message of hope and light in a sometimes dark world. She lives in Oklahoma.