Beckett Walsh is dealing with the loss of her Dad, her rock.  After her Mom’s disappearance when she was young he provided a secure and home for her.   Yet, she has never fully recovered.  The memories of their happy times together cling to her mind, continually creating more questions than answers.  They were a family.  Not only reeling from grief, she is now alone for the first time in her life.  She is determined to keep his bee farm running and his beloved bees alive. How can she make living and keep the farm going with no job and a paralyzing of leaving her farm that has kept her prisoner there for years.

Callie Pearson has faced a different loss her entire life: a stable and a loving home. Her mother’s alcoholism kept them constantly moving and in need of the basics of life. She is thrust into the role of adult and caregiver as a young child.   Each time she tries to make something of her life her mother appears in her life needing help in some way. She is trying to start a new business making naturally scented candles and soap.  If she helps her mother she will lose everything she has accomplished to date.  Yet how can she refuse her mother the help that might be a breakthrough to a normal life?

Each one is hurting and trying to heal from their traumatic past; both fragile and delicate in different ways.  Suddenly their lives are thrown together in the most unexpected way and they are forced to face their past and present pain and suffering, unable to avoid it any longer.

Beckett and Callie captured my heart and mind.  I felt their strong emotions and struggles, and even called to remembrance some of my own.  I was amazed at what they had in common but also their different strengths and coping mechanisms.  

My favorite character was the quirky, spunky little girl that shows up one day on the farm and introduces herself Katya Amadeus Cimmaron. from the planet Zirthwyth.  She was such fun.

The key thing I took away from this book is healing. Healing when you don’t know how, you don’t feel you have the strength, but you have no choice.  Beautifully written!

I received this book from Library Thing Early Reviewers in exchange for an honest review.  The opinions stated are my own.