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Rebekah travels to Texas to care for her sick aunt, and she's sure that a glamorous and exciting life is about to start. But the Spanish flu epidemic changes everything, and now she must choose between her desire to escape the type of life she's always led and the unexpected love that just might change the dream of her heart.

"By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained--by Thea's passionate embrace of women's suffrage, and by the imminent marriage of Kezia to Thea's brother, Tom, who runs the family farm. When Kezia and Tom wed just a month before war is declared between Britain and Germany, Thea's gift to Kezia is a book on household management--a veiled criticism of the bride's prosaic life to come....

When a womans whole life falls apart, she finds refuge in the home she left behind in this touching novel in the Tending Roses series from the New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours. Karen Sommerfield has been hiding from the big questions of her lifethe emotional distance in her marriage, her inability to have children, and her bout with cancer. Getting lost in her high-powered career provides the sense of purpose she yearns for....