The Year of Thorns and Honey

About this book

Nina is a photographer who really appreciates control. She likes to set up just the right shot with just the perfect composition, but life is not always as pretty as her pictures. The lighting is off, the timing is wrong, and the subjects just won't do what she wants them to do. Her teenage daughter is testing all the boundaries, her childhood memories have a For-Sale sign on them, her siblings are hanging on by the thinnest of threads, and she's engaged to her ex-husband--even if she did say "yes" in Spanish. That would be thorns enough, but she's also keeping some secrets. She's got the professional chance of a lifetime, but to take it she might have to choose her career over her already fragile family. To make matters worse, an old flame resurfaces and suddenly Nina finds herself at a crossroads of honesty and secrets, love and loss. Life is getting pretty prickly. Will Nina be able to let go of the perfect picture she had in her head and learn how to see the sweetness life has to offer her heart?