Celia Lindquist will do anything to save her family's century-old apple orchard in Copper Creek. The heritage trees were planted by her grandparents, the cider recipes were passed down through generations, and the land is the only home she's ever known. When the bank demands proof the orchard can survive, Celia has one harvest season to prove the farm-and her future-are worth saving.She just didn't expect the man they would send to judge it.Everett Collier left Copper Creek years ago as a seasonal farmhand with dirt under his nails and dreams bigger than a small-town orchard. Now he's returned as a respected cider expert hired to evaluate the very cider that could determine the orchard's fate.He's the expert now.She's the one who stayed.And the techniques he's evaluating are the same ones he once taught her beneath rows of apple trees heavy with summer fruit.Working side by side through harvest season means long days in the orchard and late nights testing cider batches in the press house. It also means confronting the past they never resolved-the summer night under the apple blossoms, the promise that followed, and the silence that broke them apart.But with an early frost threatening the harvest and the future of the orchard hanging in the balance, Celia and Everett must decide what matters more: protecting old wounds or risking their hearts again.Because some harvests only come once.And some loves are worth the wait.
