Former marine Tom Cavanaugh has come home to Virgin River, ready to take over his familys apple orchard and settle down. He knows just what the perfect woman will be like sweet, decent, maybe a little naive. The marrying kind.Nothing like Nora Crane. So why cant he keep his eyes off the striking single mother?Nora may not have finished college, but she graduated with honors from the school of hard knocks. Shes been through tough times and shell do whatever it takes to support her family, including helping with harvest time at the Cavanaughs orchard. Shes always kept a single-minded focus on staying afloat?but suddenly her thoughts keep drifting back to rugged, opinionated Tom Cavanaugh.Both Nora and Tom have their own ideas of what family means. But theyre about to prove each other completely wrong.
