The Orchard: A Novel

The passionate new novel by the author of FIREWORKS OVER TOCCOA.. Grace Lyndon is a rising ingenue in the world of perfumes and flavors; a stiletto-wearing work-a-holic in Atlanta she develops aromas and tastes to enthrall the senses. Dylan Jackson is a widowed single father whose heart and hands have been calloused in the fields of his North Georgia apple farm. When Grace happens to taste an apple picked from Dylans trees it changes both their lives forever. . Determined to track down the apples origin Grace sets off in the middle of the night where she finds not only a beautiful mountain orchard in the clouds but the mysterious man who owns it. In Stepakoffs heartbreaking eloquence their sudden yet undeniable attraction is threatened―leaving readers with a momentous finale that proves Jeffrey Stepakoff is a master craftsman of the heart.