The Orchard

Grace Lyndon is a rising ingénue in the world of perfumes and flavors; a stiletto-wearing, work-a-holic in Atlanta, she develops aromas and tastes to enthrall the senses. She’ll stop at nothing to get what she wants, even when her colleagues think she’s crazy. When she lands the biggest account of her career, to develop the flavor for a major beverage company, she thinks she has all she needs. That is, until she tastes an apple that changes her life.

Determined to track down the apple’s origin, Grace sets off in the middle of the night where she finds not only a beautiful mountain orchard in the clouds, but the mysterious man who owns it. Dylan Jackson is a widowed single father whose heart and hands have been calloused in the fields of his North Georgia apple farm. Still mourning the death of his wife, he’s reluctant to let Grace study his apples… but there’s something about this headstrong woman that he just can’t ignore.

In Stepakoff’s heartbreaking eloquence, their sudden yet undeniable attraction is threatened—leaving readers with a momentous finale that proves Jeffrey Stepakoff is a master craftsman of the heart.