New York Times bestselling author Linda Goodnight welcomes you to Honey Ridge Tennessee & a house that's rich with secrets & brimming with sweet possibilities Memories of motherhood & 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 & family No more pleasure of a man's gentle kiss No more joy in hearing a child call her Mommy Life is calm unchanginguntil a stranger with a young boy & soul-deep secrets shows up in her Tennessee town & disrupts the loneliness of her world Julia suspects there's more to Eli Donovan's past than his motherless son Alex There's a reason he's chasing redemption & bent on earning it with a new beginning in Honey Ridge Offering the guarded man work renovating the inn she glimpses someone who-like her-has a heart in need of restoration But with the chance discovery of a dusty stack of love letters buried within the lining of an old trunk the long-dead ghosts of a Civil War romance envelop Julia & Eli connecting them to the inn's violent history & challenging them both to risk facing yesterday's darkness for a future bright with hope & healing