The Year of Thorns and Honey

 In The Year of Thorns and Honey, Amy Willoughby-Burle has crafted a warm heartfelt story if second chances, exploring how we move forward in grace. With stunning emotional and psychological depth, the novel’s engaging characters wrestle with decisions large and small–and discover that starting over can be the most meaningful gift of all. –Heather Bell Adams, award winning author of The Good Luck Stone. 

“It’s like going back to visit with old friends and realizing how much you need them in your life.” — Goodreads Review

Nina is a photographer who really appreciates control. She likes to set up just the right shot with the perfect composition, but life is not always as pretty as her pictures. The lighting is off, the timing is wrong, and the subjects just won’t do like she wants them to.

She’s engaged to her ex-husband, her teenage daughter is testing all the boundaries, and her childhood memories have a For-Sale sign on them. She’s also keeping a secret about the chance of a lifetime, but what she’ll have to give up to get it might not be worth it. Just when she thinks she’s got it all figured out, an important someone resurfaces and forces her to take a hard look at what she really wants and why.Life can be as prickly as it is sweet. Will Nina be able to let go of the perfect picture she had in her head and let her heart find the sweetness that life has to offer.