The Orchard: A Novel

The passionate new novel by the author of FIREWORKS OVER TOCCOA. Grace Lyndon is a rising ingenue in the world of perfumes and flavors; a stiletto-wearing, work-a-holic in Atlanta, she develops aromas and tastes to enthrall the senses. Dylan Jackson is a widowed single father whose heart and hands have been calloused in the fields of his North Georgia apple farm. When Grace happens to taste an apple picked from Dylan s trees, it changes both their lives forever.

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. 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.