July 1, 2025

Letters from the Orchard

There's something about returning to a place you thought you'd left behind that makes you see everything differently. In Letters from the Orchard, arriving this July, we meet Lila Brennan as she comes back to her family's Washington orchard—not because she wants to, but because she needs to heal from losses she can't even name.

What I love about this story is how real it feels. Lila's dealing with her formidable grandmother Ivy, her childhood friend Cal who's still there and still complicated, and the messy business of figuring out who you are when life knocks you sideways.

But here's where it gets really interesting: hidden in the orchard's attic, Lila discovers decades of unsent letters—words full of heartbreak and hope that someone never had the courage to share. As she pieces together her family's secret history, she has to decide what to keep and what to let go.

Letters from the Orchard is one of those books that reminds you why second chances matter at any age. It's about the courage it takes to face the place that made you, and how love grows in the most unexpected places.

Sometimes the only way forward really is to go back to where it all began.

Letters from the Orchard will be available July 6, 2025.