A Cider Apple Summer

Résumé

When Posy arrives at picture-perfect Oleander House in the Somerset village of Astercombe, she is enchanted. Adopted when she was just a baby, Posy is excited to re-connect with her birth family. And with bees buzzing in the hedgerows, roses climbing up old stone walls, and patchwork fields as far as the eye can see, she can’t help but feel at home.

The sting of being sacked from her job in London quickly disappears as Posy helps out on the cider farm and grows close to her new family. Her life in the city soon seems like a faraway dream, and it feels as if she’s been in Astercombe forever.

There’s just one tiny problem – her new next-door neighbour, haughty, handsome vineyard-owner Lachlan. Lachlan has taken an instant dislike to Posy, and after a furious argument when she ventures on his land, she’s pretty certain there’s not a heart of gold beneath his frosty exterior.

But when Posy discovers the heartbreaking secret that is tearing Lachlan apart, she understands why he has shut the door on the world and vows to help him, as well as the vineyard, which has fallen on hard times. Yet just as Lachlan lets Posy in, a dangerous accident threatens to destroy everything she has begun to care about. Will her dream life in the country come at a terrible price?