After Aven Norgaard loses her husband, she decides to journey from Norway to America to make her new home with her late-husband's cousins. When Aven arrives at the Norgaard Farm, she meets Thor on the lane leading up to the family farmhouse. Once Aven meets all three of her new cousins, she is surprised by two facts. First, she was expecting these cousins to be young boys, not grown men. Second, the lack of conversation with Thor on their walk to the house was not due to rudeness; but rather, because this newest member of her family, was born deaf and is unable to speak!
Aven learns that the oldest, Jorgan, is soon to be married. She is excited to know that there will soon be another female added to the household. However, when the two other brothers seem to have their eye on Aven, she does not know how to balance this new revelation. Aven's uneasiness grows further, when she learns that the farm is financially supported by the hard cider that Thor brews from their apple harvest. Aven's late husband died, primarily from his addiction to alcohol!
The atmosphere in this house grows rather chaotic as Thor's family works very hard to help him overcome his own addition to alcohol. Hang on to see if Thor's desire to overcome this addiction is successful and where the state of this family will be at the end of all their hard work!
Looking forward to the next book in this series, Daughters of Northern Shores!
I received this book from Thomas Nelson in exchange for my honest review.