From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a powerful emotionally complex story of love loss the pain of the past--and the promise of the future. Sometimes the greatest dream starts with the smallest element. A single cell joining with another. And then dividing. And just like that the world changes. Annie Harlow knows how lucky she is. The producer of a popular television cooking show she loves her handsome husband and the beautiful Los Angeles home they share. And now she s pregnant with their first child. But in an instant her life is shattered. And when Annie awakes from a yearlong coma she discovers that time isn t the only thing she s lost. Grieving and wounded Annie retreats to her old family home in Switchback Vermont a maple farm generations old. There surrounded by her free-spirited brother their divorced mother and four young nieces and nephews Annie slowly emerges into a world she left behind years ago: the town where she grew up the people she knew before the high-school boyfriend turned judge. And with the discovery of a cookbook her grandmother wrote in the distant past Annie unearths an age-old mystery that might prove the salvation of the family farm. Family Tree is the story of one woman s triumph over betrayal and how she eventually comes to terms with her past. It is the story of joys unrealized and opportunities regained. Complex clear-eyed and big-hearted funny sad and wise it is a novel to cherish and to remember.