The publisher's summary:
"When Vernon King, his son, and son-in-law are involved in a terrible accident, three women are left to cope with their deaths, as they become the sole providers of the family they have left. The women's only income must come from the family greenhouse, but someone seems to be trying to force them out of business.
Amy King has just lost her father and brother and her mother needs her to help run the family's greenhouse. It doesn't seem fair to ask her to leave a job she loves, when there is still a sister and brother to help. But Sylvia is also greiving for her husband while left to raise three children, and Henry, just out of school, is saddled with all the jobs his father and older brother used to do. As Amy assumes her new role, she also asks Jared Riehl to put their courtship on hold."
The book has an interesting plot but I feel that the pace was rather slow. There are only so many pages a reader can stand of the characters doing the same things over and over. Amy was always having angry thoughts about her lazy brother Henry and Henry was always angry over nothing in particular. This went on for over 100 pages. I became bored but kept reading because I wanted to know how Amy and Jared resolved their relationship problems. Also, if there had been a few more twists and turns in the plot the book would have been more interesting and there probably would have been a lot less of the character's angry thoughts. Providing the reader with a resolution of the vandalism of the greenhouse would have been nice since it was mentioned in the blurb.
3 out of 5 stars.
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