Reviewed by Jennifer Rummel for TeensReadToo.com

Murphy and Leeda plan on traveling home for the summer, Murphy to escape city life and Leeda to listen to her grandmother's will.

Leeda expects to be gone within two weeks, back to the city and her boyfriend. The reading of the will changes her plans and potentially her life's direction.

Murphy's trying to run away from her feelings about a certain boy she left behind at the end of last summer. Will she see him again this year and, if she does, what is there left to say?

Birdie didn't plan on coming home this summer. Recently engaged, she decided to spend her time in Mexico. But on a whim, she rushes home, breaking things off with Enrico. Then she hears the news that her father plans on selling the orchard and its decrepit house to retire. Her heart breaks twice over the summer and she desperately needs something to help her heal.

Together the girls have one more summer on the orchard while they deal with their lives in separate ways. Friendship, love, and survival guide the girls together.

Jodi Lynn Anderson wraps up her amazing trilogy wonderfully, leaving readers fully satisfied.

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This is the third in a series beginning with Peaches. Murphy, Leeda and Birdie return to their home in Bridgewater for the summer. Murphy has been in New York City which she has grown to love. Leeda leaves her wonderful boyfriend in Manhattan for the visit. Birdie has abandoned her Mexican lover to return to her beloved peach grove.

The summer is the last one they will spend picking peaches in Birdie's family peach grove as her father plans to sell it. The last they will spend with each other. For each, it is a time to examine her heart and discover what comes next in their lives.

Murphy wonders if she will see Rex, the love she left behind because she finds it difficult to settle down. He loves country life while she loves big city living. And, her mother has never revealed who her father is. She wants to know but doesn't want to know but is certain that he, too, loves to be free to wander wherever he pleases.

Leeda inherits a pony rescue from her grandmother along with a significant sum to maintain it or spend if she can find homes for the ponies. She finds herself adopting every stray animal or bird that lands on her doorstep.

Birdie is having trouble coping with the reality of losing the home where she grew up. Her father feels that the work has become too much for him and the house straddles an underground cave that is eroding the house foundation. It's a good YA coming of age read.

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