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A family copes with personal and health challenges in the tender latest from Carlson (The Christmas Tree Farm). Honey McKerry, 66, is doing her best to care for her dementia-stricken husband, CT, who frequently forgets where he is, injures himself, and wanders off their property. Their daughter, Jewel, a single mother, decides to return to their Oregon farm to help out. When she arrives to find her mother at the ER with her injured father, who doesn’t recognize her, she fears she’s bitten off more than she can chew. Thankfully, her parents’ charming neighbor Miguel is willing to help out after CT falls again and Jewel comes up with a plan to purchase a one-story modular home for her parents and turn the farmhouse into a bed and breakfast. To make it happen, she’ll also need the help of high school flame Aaron Hanford, who owns the modular home company and is looking to reignite their romance. All the while, Jewel grapples with the pain of watching her father become less and less like the man she knows. The sections from CT’s perspective are powerfully rendered, and Carlson adds emotional depth with moments of humor and the characters’ enduring faith in the face of loss. This is sure to tug on readers’ heartstrings. (Mar.)