A #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Former marine Tom Cavanaugh's come home to Virgin River, ready to take over his family's apple orchard and settle down with the perfect woman: sweet, decent, maybe a little naïve. The marrying kind. Nothing like Nora Crane. So why can't he keep his eyes off the striking single mother? Nora graduated from the school of hard knocks. She's always kept a single-minded focus on staying afloat... but suddenly her thoughts keep drifting back to Tom.