The Penryn family have always been eccentricâliving in a dilapidated castle in the wilds of Cumbria with an orchid-mad father and a classicist mother who likes to re-enact Greek myths, who wouldnât be? Penniless and proud, Walter Penryn refuses to give up his birthrightâuntil taxes, bills, and the need for a new roof force him to reconsider.
Now the family is restoring the castle, and Olivia Penryn is in charge of reviving the once-profitable garden. Nursing a broken heart and a guilty conscience, Olivia longs to lose herself in roses and lavender, but sheâs filled with doubt. Sheâs never handled a project this massive. When Olivia hires the gorgeous Will Turner to help with landscaping, her bruised heart begins to healâand hope.
A widower and father of two, Will has plenty of his own problems. Is he strong enough to take on Oliviaâs? As his children become attached to this loving, ethereal beauty, he wonders if their wounded hearts can blossom like the flowers surrounding themâor will hidden secrets and old mistakes cost them a second chance at happiness?
The Penryn family have always been eccentricâliving in a dilapidated castle in the wilds of Cumbria with an orchid-mad father and a classicist mother who likes to re-enact Greek myths, who wouldnât be? Penniless and proud, Walter Penryn refuses to give up his birthrightâuntil taxes, bills, and the need for a new roof force him to reconsider.
Now the family is restoring the castle, and Olivia Penryn is in charge of reviving the once-profitable garden. Nursing a broken heart and a guilty conscience, Olivia longs to lose herself in roses and lavender, but sheâs filled with doubt. Sheâs never handled a project this massive. When Olivia hires the gorgeous Will Turner to help with landscaping, her bruised heart begins to healâand hope.
A widower and father of two, Will has plenty of his own problems. Is he strong enough to take on Oliviaâs? As his children become attached to this loving, ethereal beauty, he wonders if their wounded hearts can blossom like the flowers surrounding themâor will hidden secrets and old mistakes cost them a second chance at happiness?