In Apple Valley, Washington, friends are always near, neighbors have no secrets ? even if they'd like to ? and long-held wishes have a way of coming true . . . Designer Tessa McKenzie has built a good life far from her Washington hometown, and she'll get back to it as soon as she sells the Victorian house and antiques shop she inherited from her sister, Emily. But leaving Apple Valley again won't be so easy. There's her grieving nephew to consider. And there's Sheriff Cade Cunningham, her adolescent crush who saw Tessa then as just his high school sweetheart's kid sister. But now she's a beautiful grown woman.
