Food critic Tempèsta Luddington has always felt like the odd person out in her family, ever since she lost her beloved mother at the tender age of thirteen.
What\'s more, she sees for herself that there is magic and beauty in the everyday--even something as simple as a sprig of Lavender and sage..
Through her mother and the village, Tempèsta learns the value of community and friendship, the importance of self-confidence, and the power of love and trust.
Yet she stays, stubbornly sticking it out, slowly learning that her mother\'s legacy was more than just a nest egg.
Her welcome, especially by the town\'s stodgy mayor, is cold at best, and she finds herself wondering if the entire experiment was a mistake.
But she is greeted with more questions than answers.
Lost in grief and hoping to reconnect with her memories and her mother\'s past, she uses the money to buy a ramshackle manor house in Sainte-Colombe, a small village in Provence, where her mother had grown up.
Still, she is left a modest remembrance from her mother, and for the first time Tempèsta has a world of choices before her.
When her workaholic father passes fifteen years later, Tempèsta is not surprised that the majority of the considerable family money will pass to her dutiful younger brother, Wal.
Food critic Tempèsta Luddington has always felt like the odd person out in her family, ever since she lost her beloved mother at the tender age of thirteen
