Letters from the Orchard

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(40 41 49 1)>When Lila Brennan returns to her family's Washington orchard she has no plan-only the hope that distance and quiet can heal the losses she cannot name out loud. The orchard is both sanctuary and battleground: haunted by old memories new beginnings and the bracing honesty of her formidable grandmother Ivy. As autumn settles in Lila finds herself drawn into the tangled roots of the land and the community she thought she'd left behind-most notably Cal Monroe her childhood friend whose steady presence is both comfort and challenge.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(40 41 49 1)>But the orchard holds more than memories. In its attic tucked among dust and cedar Lila uncovers a cache of decades-old letters-words never sent heartbreak and hope pressed between sheets of fading paper. As she pieces together her family's secret history Lila must decide what to salvage and what to surrender. The past and future grow entwined with every season's passing and love takes root in places both familiar and unexpected.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(40 41 49 1)>Letters from the Orchard</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(40 41 49 1)> is a deeply moving novel of second chances the quiet courage it takes to come home and the gifts we inherit-grief grace and the possibility of new beginnings.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(40 41 49 1)>Sometimes the only way forward is to go back to where it all began...</em></p><p></p>