Publication Date: March 2023

Blurb:

On a cool autumn day in 1948, Victoria Nash delivers late-season peaches from her family’s farm set amid the wild beauty of Colorado. As she heads into her village, a disheveled stranger stops to ask her the way. How she chooses to answer will unknowingly alter the course of both their young lives.

So begins the mesmerizing story of split-second choices and courageous acts that propel Victoria away from the only home she has ever known and towards a reckoning with loss, hope and her own untapped strength.

Gathering all the pieces of her small and extraordinary existence, spinning through the eddies of desire, heartbreak and betrayal, she will arrive at a single rocky decision that will change her life forever.

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What To Expect:

Readers can expect a prose like novel set in the 1940-1970s with a strong female main character, along with themes of perseverance, motherhood, and selfless love.

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Content Warnings:

Language: Moderate language used mostly by one character in the first half. G-d-, b-, one use of m-f- later in the book.

Sexual Content: Mild cracked open door scene in chapter 8

Violence: Mild – Emotional abuse, child neglect, murder

Substance Use: Whiskey, brief mention of drug use

Prejudices: Moderate – Prejudice against Indigenous peoples + racial slurs

Religious Themes: Mentions of Christianity, scriptures. Other mention of fate/forces that brought people together.

Other Topics: Childbirth, adoption, teenage pregnancy.

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