Harper has just gone through a divorce and food, wine and sleeping pills are her crutches. Her ex is a manipulator and a serial cheater. After suffering 4 miscarriages, she's devastated to learn that the ex is remarried and they are expecting a baby.

When her best friend in the world is killed in an auto accident. Harper decides it's time to straighten up and start a new life. And that becomes a much easier goal when she finds out her friend has left her a farm, a lot of acreage, a dog, and a couple of horses. She's going to try to fulfil her friend's dream of running a fruit farm.

With the neighbor, Noah, and his young son, she begins to heal ..... and fall in love.

But the ex-husband shows up .. with his new infant son ... and an idea that he and Harper will raise this baby together.

Where is his wife? And what has happened to her? And what does she do when he confesses an awful, awful truth about what he did to Harper when they were married?

The story premise is a good one. It was like walking though mud in the beginning. Lots of over-descriptive paragraphs and pages. There was a lot of repetitive conversation. First we hear from the husband about something he did ... and then he repeats it to someone else ..almost word for word. I found myself skipping page after page.

I had no empathy for the character of Harper. She stayed with a mentally abusive man for over 20 years in order to get half of his military retirement. Her ex husband was a creep. Her new love interest is too good to be true. And his young son did not come across as sounding lilke any 4 year old I've known. I did feel sorry for the dog she inherited .. he was obviously grieving for his previous owner.

3 stars because it had so many possibilities, but it just didn't seem to quite get there for me.

Many thanks to the author / Netgalley for the digital copy of this book. Opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.