HOME ON APPLE BLOSSOM ROAD is the story of Colin, Mia and Grandma Justine. Grandma Justine is that lady in town who knows anything, everything and everyone in town. She is a pillar of society, helps those in need...basically a do-good Lady of action. She carries out all this with warmth, a smile and willingness in her heart. Personally she has a great family life and is married to a man she loves who loves her back.

Besides her children Beth and Dylan, she also has her hands and house full of foster children—her success stories: Mia, who was fostered and brought up by Grandma Justine's family, and Colin. These two are the apples of Justine's eyes. Having grown up together on Justine's farm house, Colin and Mia were thick as thieves, best friends and eventually lovers. Then they grew up, went off to college, and life happened. They broke up.

In one last effort to bring the childhood sweethearts back together, Justine plans a treasure hunt, their favorite game growing up. She leaves her inheritance to Colin and Mia after her death, but she hides the inheritance as the prize at the end of one last treasure hunt for the kids. Justine's funeral brings together Colin and Mia, who have grown hostile to each other. They are stumped to be thrown together, but love for their grandma makes them give into her game one last time.

What happens next is a journey down memory lane, reevaluating life, and making some tough decisions. While Colin and Mia go searching for the hidden inheritance they relive their childhood and happier past. It was like seeing them go through a labyrinth of memories preserved and fantastically displayed by Justine. HOME ON APPLE BLOSSOM ROAD is a moving story which sees the characters grieving, accepting their mistakes, getting nostalgic and daring to make their dreams a reality. Mia's and Colin's love for Grandma Justine shines through and reminds them the love they have for their small town, close knit community.

What I love about HOME ABOUT APPLE BLOSSOM ROAD is how the characters overcome their hostilities and clear the air of the foggy, sad past which separated them. The treasure hunt brought their past alive in fresh and vivid ways for the reader to experience. It was like flipping through Colin and Mia's photo journal with Grandma Justine providing a spunky voice over.

Book Summary

Colin Wright and Mia Blair grew up in Icicle Falls, but they left years ago—and not on good terms. Now Colin's grandmother, Justine, has died, and they've come home to honor this woman they both loved. That's when they get some unexpected news. They're about to inherit something. Jointly. They just have no idea what. It turns out that Justine's designed a treasure hunt for them, like the ones they enjoyed when they were kids and best friends.

But they're not kids anymore, and they sure aren't best friends. As for that young love they once shared? Well… it's complicated.

On the trail of Justine's treasure, they follow a series of clues that take them down memory lane—ending up at the orchard on Apple Blossom Road. What will they find there? And what did Justine know that they didn't?

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