The Apple Orchard

The Apple Orchard by Susan Wiggs
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Tess Delaney is a whiz at finding lost or stolen antiques and returning them to their rightful owners and is actually awaiting a huge promotion. Everything is right on track, except for the fact that Tess barely has any family left and she lives out of suitcases. Her controlled little world is rocked when she discovers that she has more family than what she thought - a grandfather, bedridden from a coma, and a sister who run an apple orchard called Bella Vista in the Sonoma Valley. The lure of new-found family and unknown secrets unravel Tess's desire to move ahead in the jet-hopping antique business.

I liked this book - reading about the orchard and the way the family was drawn together by homegrown organic foods and cooking, but what kept me on edge was the information on the German invasion of Denmark and how Wiggs wove it throughout the novel and her characters.

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The Orchard

The Orchard by Jeffrey Stepakoff

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


A sweet little story about a determined, workaholic woman and a lonely widower who grows the most aromatic apples. World traveler Grace, who lets nothing stop her from chasing down the finest ingredients in perfumes, falls in love with an apple. Into the mountains of Ellijay, Georgia, she follows her nose to an old fashion, chemical free apple orchard where she finds Dylan and persuades him to allow her to set up her instruments and recreate the wonderful apple flavor. Along the way, Dyland and Grace fall in love, but will they lose it when someone from the past appears?





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