Kristen Daniels is looking for a job. She’s trying to stay ahead of the memories that seem to always come to the surface. Mitch Hart doesn’t want to return and face the memories on Hart Hollow Farm from his childhood. He wants to get his grandmother to sell and return to his life. Emmy Hart is stubborn and determined to make the family farm a success again. Will they come together to make a success of Hart’s Hollow Farm? Can the past be overcome when the memories are strong?
Kristen Daniels is looking for Hart’s Hollow Farm and wondering if she maybe lost. A stranger comes along and gives her a word of advice. Arriving at her destination she comes across a showdown between the owner Emmy Hart and the man sent by her grandson to talk about selling the farm that’s in the way of a highway expansion. Emmy is being stubborn and when the man starts to become a nuisance Kristen steps in to help her hopefully new boss out. A storm is rolling in and Kristen is asked to stay. She’s leery of taking the job especially when it’s realized there are two children at the house. Mitch Hart has bad memories of his father’s treatment of him and his sister as children. He wants to get in and head back to New York and his life. Unfortunately, Emmy is having nothing to do with his ideas. She’s determined to bring Hart Hollow farm to the success it once was. Kristen is given the job. Between her and Mitch they work together to make Emmy’s vision to come true, they’re attraction to each other grows. Mitch’s feelings for Kristen and the farm change as they start to grow closer and getting to know each other. Kristen tries to keep her distance from the children but is unsuccessful. Mitch wants to take his niece and nephew away from Emmy. Kristen doesn’t let him get away with his plans. A visit to a neighbor results in an old feud being brought to the forefront another later a truce is reached, and friendship renewed. A meeting about the proposed highway bypass has the locals taking sides that benefit them. Mitch doesn’t think that Kristen and Emmy can turn the farm around in time. Kristen tries to keep her distance from them all but she begins to love them all. Emmy’s health is called into question and an episode when they go to town for ice cream results in a scene. Mitch begins to love being back at home on the farm and his feelings for Kristen grow. They work together to bringing the farm back into shape and making it a success. Mitch is regretting taking the extended leave from work. They start falling in love with each other. Kristen is keeping a secret from the family about her past. A birthday party for Emmy has Kristen pulling away because of Emmy’s reaction to her gift. Mitch asks for Kristen’s help about forgiving the past. Mitch asks Kristen’s help to come up with another alternative for the highway situation. Kristen and Mitch share a passionate night. Kristen is planning to leave because her job is coming to an end and she’s gotten to close to them all. Before she can leave Emmy goes missing after a bad night. They search for Emmy and find her in the middle of a field looking for her late husband. Kristen revels her painful past to Emmy. A meeting reveals the plans that Mitch, and Kristen have for the farm and the nearby town. Kristen is asked to stay, and feelings are revealed. A look five years in the future reveals what has happened on Hart Hollow Farm.
Janet Dailey continues her New Americana series with Hart’s Hollow Farm. The story of how family is all important and that you must put the past behind you to find love and forgiveness. You must try to find a balance between the past and a happy future. Emotions are a Janet Dailey hallmark and pulls you into the story and wanting you coming back for more.

New Americana Series #4

Let's move to Hart's Hollow Farm where Emmy Hart is owner.
She placed an ad for a Jane of all trades... Kristen sees ad
goes looking for farm and spending her last dollar to get there,

Her interview:
You gonna steal from me?
- Lie to me?
-Murder me?
Then you are hired! (Love this interview)

More characters are introduced and you will feel a part of this farm and this town.
I so enjoy Janet Dailey's books, and this a series I look forward to more books!

I just finished reading Hart’s Hollow Farm by Janet Dailey and wish it hadn’t ended. The characters seem real life, like they could be your own neighbors. It is set in a small Georgia town where everyone knows everyone else. You experience some of their day to day problems. The five main characters start off as five individual separate people who come together to make one whole complete family. You feel the same emotions that the characters feel. Some of the scenes actually bring you close to tears, while others warm your heart. If you have had actual experience with any of the problems in the book, you’d know that they are real and to the point. The way the characters deal with them is true to life. The scenes in the book are written so well that you feel like you are actually there. I anxiously await Ms. Dailey’s next book. #HartsHollowFarm#NetGalley

3.5* Vintage Janet Dailey, but it's dated for 2020, and the romance element isn't believable.

This is a family saga tale, pretty true to the blurb. There are some sad elements and some nice ones; it has a feel of Americana and I did quite like the tale.

However, I kept waiting for reveals to happen, and for the leads to have a moment, but they seemed to drift into a romance, which was the 'two kisses, some sweet talk and then fade to black', which really dated the tale. I needed to know about Mitch's sad childhood and how his sister ended up as messed up as she did, to leave her two kids as orphans in the care of their elderly great-grandmother. I needed to know about Kristen's tragic past and how long Emmy survived for, and what life for this family consisted of. I needed to see a bit more of Emmy in her victory, but everything felt truncated and I was partly left with a feel of 'is this it? I've come so far and don't have answers?'.

I think, with the greatest of respect, that the tale needed a bit of padding out and a bit of editing, because this had too many cooks and the finished product felt incomplete.

ARC courtesy of Kensington Books/Zebra and NetGalley, for my reading pleasure.

I first read Janet Dailey’s books decades ago, and continue to enjoy her wonderful stories and rich characters all these years later. Hart’s Hollow Farm introduces readers to Mrs. Emmy, the Hart family matriarch who is desperately trying to save the family farm from being destroyed by a planned highway.

Emmy hopes to convince her grandson, Mitch, to return to the farm to help her. She also hopes that Kristen, a newly hired employee, can help her to save her home. Emmy sees sadness and loss in Kristen’s eyes and hopes that the farm will help her to find peace as well.

Ms. Dailey has written a wonderful story about love, loss, and redemption with richly developed characters who readers will root for as the story unfolds.

Hart's Hollow Farm, is full of emotional writing. Most of it sad emotions. If you are into a heart felt story with a happy ending then this book is for you.