The Hamiltons 12 - Sherry and Sunflowers

Six-year-old Zia names everyone she meets. She took one look at the pilot and called him Prince Daddy. She’s never been wrong yet. Alara Brighton never meant to stay in Napa. She was supposed to be passing through on her way to a steady job with health benefits. But when the job disappeared and her worsening health left her unable to keep driving, the people she’d tried so hard not to need refused to let her face it alone. Now she and Zia are staying at the House of St. James wine-country estate—the place Zia calls the castle—while Alara works on a rebrand that might save the struggling family winery. It’s only temporary. She’ll finish the work, get back on her feet, and move on. At least, that’s the plan. Reaves St. James lost his heart to Zia before he realized her mother was stealing it too. But he knows Alara doesn’t need a man with intentions. She needs a friend who’ll drive her to appointments, give her room to breathe, and never make her feel as though accepting help means surrendering control. Reaves can be that man. Even while Zia fills the estate with glitter and fairy tales, his father begins to laugh again, and Alara brings new life to the winery—and to Reaves himself. He’s spent his life in the sky, but his father needs him on the ground. As Reaves begins trading the cockpit for the family business, he has to decide where his future belongs. Alara faces a harder choice. She’s spent her whole life believing she has to earn the right to stay. But the St. James family is offering her something she’s never had: a home, a family, and a love that asks nothing in return. Reaves can wait for her to believe it’s real. He just hopes that when she’s strong enough to leave, she’ll finally be brave enough to stay. Sherry and Sunflowers is a warm, emotional…