As Alice contemplates her life on the eve of her 40th, she recognises the past 40 years have been nothing flash but overall, she's content. She enjoys her work, her independence, her lifelong best friend, and her romantic status but her father is fading and it still seems like something is missing.

When Alice wakes up the next morning, she is prepared to celebrate her 40th but instead finds herself transported back to 1996, the day of her 16th birthday. It isn't the travelling back in time that shocks her, it's her dad - alive and the dad she remembered growing up with. Armed with a new perspective on life and memories of her past but also future, is there anything she would change?

Leah and McKenna live parallel lives, but they've never met. They never accidentally crossed paths at the gym or boarded the same train. They never discussed their personal problems. They never acknowledged the other despite their similarities of success, wealth, happiness, and entrapment.

That's because they both know what it means to live inside a home more dangerous than the outside. Driving past McKenna's one night, Leah sees a reflection of her own home life through the front door - the perfect husband whose anything but. Instead of driving away and forgetting what she saw, Leah makes the decision to watch out for her from afar until one night, she intervenes. They may not know each other, but they will.

Nina LaCour, author of Watch Over Me, is releasing her first official full-length novel with Yerba Buena and I am excited. Even though this is a romance, I am still going to read it because I appreciate the uniqueness of the author's writing and anticipate beautiful imagery in this work.

Running away from home at sixteen leaves Sara Foster lost but not for long. Leaving behind her pain and naivety, Sara transformed herself over the years into a top-end bartender coveted for her cocktail ability and the mystery that surrounds her.

Emilie Dubois is letting life pass her by. In her seventh year and fifth major change as an undergraduate - she wants the beauty and community her grandparents cultivated but cannot commit to one thing. On a whim, Emilie takes a floral arrangement position at the glamorous Yerba Buena restaurant soon embarking on a new stage in life and also a relationship with the married owner.

When Sara catches sight of Emilie at Yerba Buena, their connection is instant but the damage carried by both through their choices tears their connection apart over and over and when Sara's past catches up and Emilie finally gains a sense of purpose, together they must decide if their love is more powerful than their past.