PICKING PEARS WITH PIPER by Author Regina Walker **The Orchard Brides** ** Book Birthday**

Welcome back to Romance Sweet Reads. Today we're featuring the next book in The Orchard Brides series of contempoary, sweet/historical romances, Picking Pears With Piper by Author Regina Walker.

Piper, a single mom focused on caring for her mother who has dementia, doesn’t have time to fall in love. She knows it’s for the best for her to focus on her daughter, Cedar, and not get caught up in dating again. Her past choices in men were doozies. From the guys that wouldn’t keep a job, to the men willing to scare, intimidate, or hit her, Piper doesn’t know how to find someone different from those guys.

Corbin is a paramedic in Double Creek. He picked a small town to settle down in because he has visions of a family in his mind. Small town life isn’t what Corbin expected it to be, but when an elderly patient needs Corbin’s help on an old pear farm, he jumps to action.

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Piper combed through her daughter, Cedar’s hair. Spritzing it as she worked, she tried to work the fine strands of honey-blonde hair into a braid.

“Are you excited for Aunt Megan’s wedding today?” Piper bent forward and kissed her daughter’s temple.

“I throw flowers.” Cedar lit up. Her little cheeks grew rounder with the smile spread across her lips.

“Yes, baby. You do.” Piper looked into the mirror in front of them and studied her sweet daughter’s face. She found herself feeling grateful that Megan was having a low-key wedding on the ranch. Farm? Homestead? What were Ben and Megan calling their country life?

Piper shrugged away the thoughts, but then she found herself worrying about when Corbin would arrive, if he would be on time, and if Cedar would mess up her hair in his truck.

“I should have just agreed to meet him there. I have to get Mom ready and I’m not sure what kind of day she’s having,” Piper muttered.

“Nana happy,” Cedar said.

“You’ve been in to see her?” Piper finished the braid in Cedar’s hair, and she wrapped an elastic around the end.

“Yes.” Cedar fidgeted in her seat and lifted her hand to her head.

“Now don’t you rip this down. We want our hair to be pretty for Aunt Megan’s wedding,” Piper said.

“Okay, Mommy,” Cedar agreed.

After smoothing, pinning, and spraying all of Cedar’s flyaway hairs, Piper patted her little arm. “I’m going to go check on Nana and see if she wants me to fix her hair. Why don’t you sit on the bed with your tablet and watch some cartoons?”

Cedar’s eyes widened and she bounced off the chair. Scurrying across the bedroom she shared with her mom, she grabbed her tablet from the desk and then climbed up on the bed.

Piper stood in front of the mirror and smoothed the top layer of lace down on her dress. The dark forest green color was one of her favorites, but she stared at her reflection with doubt. She tugged at the hemline that brushed the tops of her knees and wondered if she should have picked a longer dress.

Regina Walker was born in the beautiful state of Colorado. She moved to Oklahoma in her late teen years, where she has resided ever since. She likes to curl up on the couch and binge-watch crime shows with her hard-working husband. When she's not wrestling with a writing project, she can be found wrangling their children, riding their horses, or tending the garden. Along with finding horses on their small farm, chickens, dogs, and cats can be found at nearly every turn.

Regina crafts compelling characters facing some of life's hardest challenges. Her heart's desire is to always point toward Jesus through the way her characters face challenges, relationships, and adversity.

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