One orchard. Generations of secrets. A past that refuses to stay sealed.
Claire Rowan has spent twenty years avoiding her hometown—and the failing orchard she once swore she would never inherit.
When her mother’s memory begins to unravel, Claire returns for one harvest season. Instead, she discovers a locked room filled with hundreds of jars, each labeled with a name, a date, and a memory someone wanted forgotten.
For generations, the women in Claire’s family have preserved more than fruit. They have taken away grief, shame, and painful truths. But the memories were never truly gone. They were only waiting.
One jar bears Claire’s name.
As she searches for the truth about the night she left home at seventeen, Claire uncovers secrets about her first love, her father’s death, and the choice her mother made to protect her.
Now the orchard is dying, the past is returning, and Claire must decide which memories should remain buried—and which must finally be reclaimed.
