The Welcome Home Garden Club (Twilight, Texas, #4)

The Welcome Home Garden Club (Twilight, Texas #4)

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Traditional meaning of Pink and White Roses: I love you still and always will.

Caitlyn Marsh stopped believing in happily-ever-after when high-school sweetheart, Gideon Garza, left for Iraq. Now she raises her small son while her matchmaking gardening club members drive her crazy. Then Caitlyn's world turns upside-down when Gideon swaggers back to Twilight.

Gideon had left t...more
Paperback, 400 pages
Published March 29th 2011 by Avon
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Ana
The hero Gideon is a solider who spent the last 8 years in Iraq and Afghanistan, and is having problems with adapting to the normal life he desperately wants to live. He comes back home to Twilight for his father's funeral and is hit with two surprises. His father, the man who refused to admit that Gideon is his son, left him his ranch and 11 million dollars. And his high school sweetheart Caitlyn, has some news for him as well, he is a father to her 7 year old son Danny. What a welcome home, ri...more
Addictive
Book 4 in the Twilight Texas series finds Caitlyn Marsh raising her son in the small community of Twilight, Texas after her husband is killed in a freak accident. Not to fear though, because the members of the local garden club rally around her in support. That is until Local bad boy turned local war hero Gideon Garza returns from the war a scarred man.
Caitlyn Marsh has found strength from her friends and fellow members of the local garden club in her hometown after her husband is killed by a li...more
Romancing the Book
Reviewer: Valerie

Caitlyn Marsh stopped believing in happily-ever-after when high-school sweetheart, Gideon Garza, left for Iraq. Now she raises her small son while her matchmaking gardening club members drive her crazy. Then Caitlyn's world turns upside-down when Gideon swaggers back to Twilight.

Gideon had left town in the middle of night with threats ringing in his ears. A lot of things have changed since then. This bad boy-turned-Green Beret bears scars from the war, the timid girl he loved is...more
Brie C.
Originally posted at Romance Around the Corner

Lori Wilde’s Twilight Texas Series is wonderful. She has created a beautiful town full of quirky characters and compelling stories. I discovered her books a couple of years ago after the release of The Sweethearts' Knitting Club, and since then I’ve been anxiously expecting the next release.

The Welcome Home Garden Club is about Gideon and Caitlyn. They used to be high school sweethearts and they loved each other madly. They also had a lot of obstacle...more
Karen
Apr 16, 2011 Karen rated it 5 of 5 stars  ·  review of another edition Recommends it for: Everyone!
This is the fourth book in the Twilight, Texas series and the first I have read. I found so much to like about this story. Caitlyn (the daughter of the town judge) and Gideon (the illegitimate son of the town’s wealthiest man) are very believable, as is their history and their parent’s conspiracy to keep them apart by giving Gideon a choice of jail or the military. Eight years later, Gideon comes home when his father dies. He lost his arm in the service of his country and has had a lot of adjust...more
Anne
It (the new Lori Wilde book) had me from the last sentence of the prologue.
"Then he stripped off his helmet, pulled away his goggles, and Caitlyn stared straight into the eyes of a dead man." Goosebumps popped out on my arms when I read this and I just knew I was going to love this story.

"The Welcome Home Garden Club" is the fifth of her Twilight, Texas series, and another winner as far as I'm concerned. This heart-warming story is one of Wilde's best. By the way, all of the other books in this...more
Gail
I enjoyed this book. The heroine is a fairly recent widow with a little boy, but she's still haunted by the memory of her first love, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks who went off to war and was killed in Afghanistan. Except--when she's at the funeral of the Big Man in town--turns out he's not dead after all.

The hero is the bastard son of the Big Man who was a bastard in every sense of the word except literal. The heroine's dad is the local judge, and she hasn't spoken to him in years--no...more
Amy Jacobs
I am in love with this author and her novels! I always love the people of Twilight, Texas that she introduces me to with each new installment of the series. Not only does she bring new romance with each book, but she also does my favorite thing and bring back characters from the previous books! I love when an author reminds the reader of previous books in the series by integrating them into the current read.


With this book, we meet Caitlyn Marsh who owns the florist shop in town. After having a...more
Ruth
Once you get past the highly improbable premise on which the story is based, this is a better than average romance novel. Caitlyn and Gideon were high school sweethearts. She was the rich girl, he was the illegitimate son of a rich man and a poor woman. Their fathers teamed up to send him off to the Army to get him out of town. She thinks he died; he thought she forgot about him. His father died, and decided to make him the heir (rather than the two legitimate sons). She found out she was pregna...more
Missy Jane
I kind of struggled with what to give this book as far as stars are concerned. The writing is good, no complaints on grammar, structure, etc. Unfortunately I had a few problems with the story from Chapter one. This was my first Lori Wilde book. I'm certain if I had started at the beginning of the series I wouldn't have felt overwhelmed by the amount of characters she tried to introduce right off the bat. I had to reread the prologue twice but it didn't help. I felt like she "info dumped" the who...more
Ns
The Welcome Home Garden Club is a sweet, heartwarming read.

I liked the premise for what it was; simple, not completely new, or unexpected, but full of emotional potential. Where the story lacked originality, there was still the opportunity to bring the characters to life and make their stories new and special to us. Yet, I could not get into the story, finding the plot was not entirely believable and the characters unbalanced. At times, serious issues and situations were trivialized by crude di...more
Penney
In Twilight, Texas, single mom Caitlyn Marsh disliked affluent J. Foster Goodnight who never recognized her high school sweetheart Gideon Garza as his. Eight years ago Garza was murdered and she was left pregnant and estranged from her father. Thus, she is stunned when Gideon, who left town late at night without a goodbye to join the Green Beret, arrives in town for Goodnight's funeral.

Caitlyn is hired to create a special garden to honor Goodnight; meanwhile Gideon has come back home, seeking cl...more
Daniela
The 4th book in the Twilight, Texas Series, and I'm hoping it's not the last. I'm really loving the town, the traditions, the women who run these clubs, the love and friendship of everyone in the town. Although I enjoyed this book, I felt it was a bit rushed and got to the ending very quickly. Not to mention, some of the stuff that was brought up, was too easily accepted and everything went on in it's merry way.

Gideon Garza is in the military. He's been in Afghanistan for over 8 years now. Every...more
Naima
I really liked this book and would rate it 4.5. Recently, I've started to get tired of the secret baby trope (shocking for me) because most of the time the woman has no good reason to keep the kid a secret. In the Welcome Home Garden Club, the kid is a secret to the father due to machinations by a third party. This was the perfect secret baby set up. There was no Harlequinesque Presents prolonged angst on the part of Caitlyn about whether or not to share the news of the child with Gideon when he...more
Julie Barrett
The Welcome Home Garden Club by Lori Wilde
Kaitlan runs the garden club and she supplies funerals and weddings with the flower arrangements. Members try to matchmake and find dates for her.
Cool that some meanings of some flowers are at the beginning of every chapter.
Legend of the fountain where you throw a penny into it and you'd find her true love is prevalent in this book as the others. It's a Twilight, TX tradition.
at a funeral for another Marine Giddeon rides up on his Indian motorcycle, she...more
Lady Lioness
Sep 20, 2012 Lady Lioness marked it as old-borders-reviews
Review from the Borders days: 1/05/11


I don't know how I feel about this one. I wanted to like it because I liked the Christmas Cookie one, but crap on a cracker, it's all over the place. Gideon's dead! No, he's alive! But missing a hand! And tortured by his war experiences! That's okay, she still loves him! But he doesn't know he has a son! And his half brothers hate him! But he moves in! But it's too soon! So he moves out! Then it's three months later! And now it's okay again! But his brothers...more
Cindy Flory
I have read many books by Lori Wilde, so when I saw she had added another book to this story, I couldn't wait to get my hands on it. I have to say...that I was not disappointed. I loved it so much, that I hated to see it end. That to me is a sign of a great writer. You'll find it very hard to put this book down, believe me, I was up until 4 am reading this one. Poor Caitlyn finding herself all alone pregnant at 17, after the boy she's always loved, up and leaves town without any notice, leaving...more
Sara
while the ending to the book was a bit anticlimatic, the overall story was very heartwarming and relevant to today's society.
In the world we now live in, people rarely think about the soliders overseas fighting to keep our country free. And while I don't personally agree with the whole concept of an army on foreign soil for no valid reason, I do have to admit that the US would not be the same country if people weren't fighting for our freedom.
Gideon is a former Green Baret who returns home for...more
Amanda
This was my first time reading anything by this author. I thought this book was good though I guess I would have liked to see more of the details in the story with regards to the forgiveness of certain characters and more background to each of the characters themselves. Take for instance Gideon. We know he was in Afghanistan and he lost his hand there but we didn't really know that he had a head injury the first time. We didn't even know that there was a first time until later in the story.

I wil...more
Natālija
I have mixed feelings about this book. It was definitely a page-turner & I wasn't even slightly annoyed. I really like the hero & the heroine & I found myself rooting for them.
Although it takes place in Twilight (Texas), it has no Texas feeling to it. It could easily take place in another state. So if you aren't into cowboys - don't worry, there are no cowboys in this book.
My main complain is that there were to many characters. I wasn't able to remember all Caitlyn's garden club me...more
Cynthia
This story talks about Gideon who come back to Twilight .He met her fist love Caitlyn who is a garden owner.she had married,but her husband died.She's garden is very important to her. They met at Gideon father 's funeral.When he knows Caitlyn and he has a child Danny,he is very happy and fear.He had lost a arm in a war ,he thought he couldn't live as a normal person.He can't give them a wonderful life.But he love Caitlyn,even lover her than before.This story has a happy ending.Finally,love defea...more
Edith
This book had everything a romance novel requires -- a lover returning from the dead, a spurned lover (although the spurner wasn't aware of that), a controlling father, several members of the Goodnight family (from the famed Goodnight Trail), the joining of an unwed mother to a good man who was later killed by a lightning strike, not to mention a prize for the best garden in Texas. Did I mention that the unwed mother's husband owned a florist shop?

Author Wilde does a masterful job of filling out...more
Kim Reads (Read Your Writes Book Reviews)
Reviewed on: http://readyourwrites.blogspot.com

This is the fourth book in the Twilight, Texas series by Lori Wilde. However, it is the first book by Lori that I have read. It will not be the last.

The story centers around two characters, Caitlyn Marsh and Gideon Garza. Two high school sweethearts who have had the last eight years of their lives changed dramatically as a result of things done to them by the adults in their lives.

Caitlyn Blackthorne Marsh grew up being privileged, as the only child...more
Marina
Book 4 in Twilight, Texas series.This was fun to read as always. Love the town and all its characters. I can't believe I am done with this series.I want more.Please someone tell me this is not the end!
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Note to self: Texas
Caitlyn Marsh(florist,ex,25yo,widow,garden club mem,pal)& Danny(7yo,theirs) +Gideon Garza(27yo,ex,ex Green Beret Sargent,amputee,half bro),Judge Richard Blackthorne(65...more
Deborah
A totally perfect book to read over the memorial weekend. Veterans of the past and present abound in this book where the club is now into planning a garden for a competition. Thrilled over how the author presents current issues that our returning veterans are facing as they reaclimate into civilian life. But still disappointed that that thread that was presented in book 3 was not resolved. Will there be a 5th?
Tasty Book Tours/ A Tasty Read/ Sweet Reads Reviews
Gideon was a very real character, one that we can relate to. He was a troubled youth who was sent away to the military and became a man with a dark side of life that only the few and proud know about. Left to think he was dead was Caitlyn. Who was lied to about what happened to Gideon and raised a son with a stand in husband. It was a toching story about healing, trusting and learning to love again.
Heidi
Great Romance with enough heart to carry me through to the end of the book. I enjoyed it alot and I will read the rest in the series, I didn't realize this book was one of a series so I will hve to get the rest. There's enough plot to keep you reading although it is pretty obvious who is going to get the girl and get hooked up, however, I liked it and look forward to reading the rest of lori's novels
Emma
I didn't enjoy reading this book at all. I'm pretty disappointed because I love the idea behind this series (and I love Lori Wild's books, in general). The reunited lovers storyline usually works very well with me but this one was just so d** boring. Plus it reminded me of one of her previous books, Addicted to Love, and of Truly Madly Yours by Rachel Gibson... The similarities were truly annoying. I mean even the heroes names are somewhat similar (Graza/Allegreza). But what really bothered me i...more
Amanda
Apr 03, 2011 Amanda rated it 4 of 5 stars
Shelves: 2011
Maybe I am sentimental because I have my own soldier (thankfully never hurt while deployed) but books that have someone who has fought, especially in our current conflicts, always make me tear up and feel thankful. I really liked this book and I was very happy for the main couple who got a second chance in love and happiness.
Natalie
I enjoyed the psychological layers of this story. The hero's post traumatic stress and the heroine's caution and grief were well drawn. At times it was a little slow, but that's probably part and parcel of what the author wanted to achieve. I love the small town community setting. Nice ending regarding the Victory garden, too. Not too sweet.
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The Welcome Home Garden Club (Twilight, Texas, #4)
The Welcome Home Garden Club (Twilight, Texas, #4)
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Lori Wilde can’t remember a time when she didn’t want to write. She even went to nursing school so she could have a schedule flexible enough to allow her to write on the side. She nursed for 20 years, working in a variety of settings from the newborn nursery to the recovery room, to dialysis. But she never lost her desire to write.

She sold her first book in 1994 to Silhouette Romance but later dis...more
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