Susannah's Garden : Debbie Macomber Paperback 2007

In this novel by a bestselling master of women's fiction, a 50-year-old married schoolteacher reevaluates her life, her relationship with her parents, and the mystery surrounding her first boyfriend (who vanished when she was 18) when she returns to her small Washington hometown to put her mentally declining mother in a nursing home.

Fifty-year-old Susannah Nelson returns to her childhood home and to the garden she has always loved, where she discovers that some paths were meant to be taken and others were meant to be buried forever