Promotional material intended for booksellers: 2 separately bound excerpts issued in a slipcase. The time is 1979. Larry Cook, a proud and exacting farmer, whose family has lived on this land for four generations, unexpectedly decides to retire and turn over his valuable holdings to his three daughters. For Ginny and Rose, who live on the farm with their husbands, the gift makes sense - a reward for years of hard work, a challenge to make the farm...

When Ella discovers that her husband, Miles, is secretly planning to sell the farm her family has owned for hundreds of years, it's the final straw. Her already rocky marriage is over. Determined to save Willowbrook and protect her disabled daughter, Amy, from a father who doesn't love her, Ella works hard to build the farm into a successful B&B. And when Cameron O'Neal arrives in the Wiltshire village and offers to help Ella, she suddenly finds herself...

Lucy Sinclair returns the small small town of St. Dennis where she grew up to plan a celebrity wedding, and reconnects with Clay Madison, her childhood best friend.

Since the split of her marriage, Liz Dewhurst has lived with her son and her father on their family farm, but the decline of the business has left the farm burdened with debt. Can Liz win back either a husband or a home?

Ella, after being forced to auction off most of her late father's belongings, including her family's land, must find the courage to risk her heart when Loyal Weaver, the new owner of her family's old farmhouse, asks for her hand in marriage.

"In order to save the family Christmas tree farm that her sister is equally determined to sell, Madison McDowell will have to focus her efforts - and grapple with her old boyfriend who owns the neighboring farms and has plans of his own - if she's to succeed. After all, the farm deserves a second chance. And perhaps love does too"--

"Larkspur Nielsen is determined to keep the family homestead running and to fulfill their dream of starting a seed catalog, even if she must do it alone. When she discovers that Isaac McTavish has feelings for her, she pushes him away to protect her heart. But how can she build the life she's always dreamed of when unexpected dangers arrive?"--Provided by publisher.

"When the Tatum Elliott shows up to run the catering kitchen at my family's farm and event center, I don't trust her any more than I did back in culinary school. But like it or not, she's here. On my territory. My turf. In the kitchen that shares a building with my farm-to-table restaurant. And she can't seem to keep her hands off my parmesan. Our old rivalry flares to life faster than a flambé, but there's something else flaming between us too....

"The culmination of Christopher Tilghman's great Chesapeake saga, a story spanning four centuries of an American family"--

As a family sits down to enjoy a meal, thoughts of those who provide the food, from farmers who plant and tend seeds to store clerks who sell groceries, fill each one with gratitude.