“Jenny Summerlin is struggling to save her dying orange grove when a baffling mystery upends her world. A skeleton buried with a priceless treasure has been found on her land, which brings of flood of investigators onto her property to study a decades old crime.
Captain Wyatt Rossiter is charged with solving the puzzling discovery. Unfortunately, he is also the man who broke Jenny’s heart two years earlier. Plagued with regrets and unresolved feelings for Jenny, Wyatt resists getting drawn back into her world, but he cannot rest until he solves the unusual crime.
The former lovers are trapped on a case neither of them want. Soon they awaken a fifty-year old mystery involving Cold War espionage and a forbidden romance. Will resurrecting the old secrets endanger the survival of her grove and everything she holds dear?”
— from Goodreads
My Review
Jenny Summerlin has her hands full keeping her family’s orange grove afloat. The discovery of a fabrege egg on her property could change everything. Whether for better or worse, only time will tell…
Based on their descriptions, the fabrege eggs sound absolutely gorgeous! Learning about orange growing and the orange juicing industry was interesting, as well.
I was curious about what farming and Russian antiquities had to do with each other. But the way the story explained their connection made sense. (And according to the Author’s Note, does have basis in historical fact.)
See Content Notes
death and dying, mention of by-blows and illegitimate children, mention of war and injuries sustained during it, mention of a man attempting to force himself on a woman, mention of drunkards and gambling, mention of a “lover’s tryst,” mention of a lady’s “bosom” (no explicit details), some mild violence, blood, use of hell and hellish, mention of a ghost, gunshots, references to insanity and madness, mentions of murder and domestic abuse, some mild innuendo, a woman is falsely called a prostitute
Favorite Quotes
“Is that why you broke up with her? Penny’s ambition?”
He shook his head. “I broke up with her because she cheats at cards. People who cheat when the stakes are low will never stick by your side when you need to storm the beaches at Normandy.“
Elizabeth Camden
“…but farmers had always been the original entrepreneurs. Who else would look at a field of dirt and plan, work, and pray that a marketable crop would show up at the end of the season?“
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