The Edge of Harvest

Nora Vance came home to Willow Creek to sell one thing. She's leaving with two. Twelve years ago Nora walked out of this town and didn't look back. Now her grandmother's cider mill is hers on paper and a Chicago developer is hers on the phone, and all she has to do is sign. Then she meets the caretaker — Cal Sheridan, the boy she left on the courthouse steps, older, quieter, raising a daughter alone. They make a deal: six weeks, no feelings, goodbye. They last eleven days. By harvest, Nora is pregnant, the buyer is circling, and the mill is the only thing holding either of them upright. Cal wants to rebuild what they broke. Nora knows exactly what it costs a woman to stay. One dusty ledger and one long season will decide it.