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Nestled along the shores of the beautiful Great Lakes, Meyers Orchard is where Shelby Meyers found unexpected love and strength--and now must forge a new life on her own terms...
Marriage marks both a happy ending and a new chapter for Shelby Meyers. She and Ryan Chambers have overcome tremendous odds to stand together in her grandparents' orchard on the bluffs of Lake Superior, exchanging vows. Still, there are challenges old and new to contend with. Shelby struggles to find her niche among Ryan's prominent Chicago family, while her own mother remains unreliable and unpredictable, impacting her life even from afar.
Though Shelby's love for Ryan is as deep-rooted as the orchard, her rocky upbringing makes her hesitant to start a family. Before she can reconcile those feelings, a personal tragedy throws Shelby's confidence, and her marriage, into crisis. To move forward she'll have to go back--to her Great Lakes hometown and her mother, and to secrets she could never have guessed at, as she resolves to branch out on her own...
Author Notes
After graduating from St. Olaf College, Kerstin March built a career around writing. She's held positions as a newspaper reporter and a public relations professional. Kerstin lives in Minnesota with her husband and their three children. Family Trees was her first novel. Readers can visit her website at kerstinmarch.com.
Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
March's contemporary standalone is a sentimental and, at times, heart-wrenching story that touches on guilt, grief, forgiveness, and motherhood. After a difficult, fatherless childhood with a self-centered mother, Shelby Meyers has found true love with Ryan Chambers, scion of a wealthy, high-profile Chicago family. From the outset, their marriage is everything Shelby has hoped for, even though she is hounded by paparazzi and intrusive admirers because of Ryan's notoriety. When Shelby's world is rocked by a devastating tragedy, she pulls away from Ryan as she tries to deal with her loss. She retreats to her home in Bayfield, Wis., a warm-hearted community in a pristine area of Lake Superior, where she was mostly raised by her grandparents, and where Shelby feels grounded and safe. She discovers much more about her mother and the circumstances of her birth, and she learns that Ryan has been keeping a guilty secret. March (Family Trees) keeps things moving along, but the reconnection with Ryan feels rushed, and the ending is predictable. (Dec.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Booklist Review
Taking up where her first novel, Family Trees (2015), left off, March rejoins Shelby Meyers, whose hometown on the banks of Lake Superior is a long way from fiancé Ryan Chamber's posh family home on Michigan Avenue in Chicago. But she loves Ryan and is sure that their marriage will work out. Life, however, is not easy for the newlyweds. The Chambers family is wealthy and influential, and the press becomes Shelby's constant companion. Intent on preserving her privacy, Shelby is quickly labeled icy, and soon stories about her mother's wild youth begin to surface. Shelby misses the quiet openness of Lake Superior and the grandmother who raised her. She works with Ryan to develop a documentary depicting life in northern Wisconsin, but when a personal tragedy threatens their marriage, she flees for home. There Shelby must confront secrets from her past and pressures from her present. March's sweet, thoughtful novel follows two likable characters as they work to hold on to their marriage and develop their own sense of family in the face of daunting obstacles.--Smith, Candace Copyright 2015 Booklist
