The Orchard at First Frost

After forty-two years as a pediatric nurse, sixty-seven-year-old Audrey Marlowe is ready for retirement, rest, and a life that finally belongs to her. Then she inherits her late aunt's apple orchard in Virginia's beautiful Shenandoah Valley. Audrey plans to stay only long enough to complete the harvest, settle the estate, and prepare Copperleaf Orchard for sale.But the orchard comes with deep roots, a close-knit small-town community, and Peter Hensley, a seventy-year-old widowed beekeeper whose quiet strength challenges Audrey's belief that love must always come with responsibility. As harvest season brings changing leaves, difficult choices, and the threat of an early frost, Audrey must decide whether she is ready to choose joy, belonging, and an unexpected new beginning.The Orchard at First Frost is a clean later-in-life romance filled with mature love, retirement, family healing, small-town warmth, autumn atmosphere, second chances, emotional depth, and the hope of finding love after sixty.