Winter in Paradise (Paradise #1)

by Elin Hilderbrand

Make a cup of herbal tea, hunker down on the sofa with her favorite chenille blanket, crack open one of her new books.

Cash loves his brother, in theory. In practice, he can’t stand the guy.

Divorce, he thinks as he waits at the bottom of the big slide for Floyd. It’s such a dark, ugly, complicated word.

Now he has to get on the phone and make at least sixty seconds of pleasant conversation without letting his mother know that his life is dissolving like an aspirin in acid.

the world is filled with deceptions and betrayals—nearly every life has one—and yet the sun still rises and sets,

Maybe it’s simply one of the unsolved mysteries of human nature: how two siblings, born of the same parents and raised in the same house, can be complete opposites.

“But we can salvage the family, I’m pretty sure. We can have a functional divorced relationship, with shared custody.”

“But love is messy, complicated, and unfair,”