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    Sunrise Point

    Written by Robyn Carr

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    Tom Cavanaugh may think he wants a traditional woman, but in Virgin River, the greatest tradition is falling in love unexpectedly…

    Former marine Tom Cavanaugh has come home to Virgin River, ready to take over his family's orchard and settle down. He knows just what the perfect woman will be like: sweet, decent; the marrying kind. Nothing like Nora Crane. So why can't he keep his eyes off the striking single mother? Both Nora and Tom have their own ideas of what family means. But they're about to prove each other completely wrong.…
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateSep 1, 2012
    ISBN9781471211720
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    Sunrise Point
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    Robyn Carr

    Robyn Carr is an award-winning, No.1 New York Times bestselling author of more than sixty novels, including highly praised women's fiction such as Four Friends and The View From Alameda Island and the critically acclaimed Virgin River, Thunder Point and Sullivan's Crossing series. Virgin River is now a Netflix Original series. Robyn lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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    • 4/5
      Sunrise Point is the seventeenth full-length book in Robyn Carr’s Virgin River series. It features Tom Cavanaugh who was introduced much earlier in the series as a teenager if I’m remembering correctly, but he’s been away serving in the Marines for a number of years. He only recently returned to Virgin River to help his grandmother run the family apple orchard. He’s paired with Nora, a more recent addition to the series, who is a single mother with a troubled past. Nora is desperate to earn some cash to take care of her two daughters, so when she sees a job posting for seasonal apple pickers, she goes to the orchard to apply. Tom is reluctant to hire her, thinking she isn’t strong enough for the job, but his grandmother overrules him and hires her anyway. While working hard to prove herself, Nora becomes friends with Tom and an attraction forms between them. But Nora is busy trying to keep her little family afloat financially and she’s certain that a hottie like Tom wouldn’t want a single mom with baggage. Although he likes Nora, Tom thinks that he wants a more stable woman with less responsibilities, so he takes up a casual relationship with the widow of a marine he served with in Afghanistan, only to find out that looks can be deceiving and that sometimes what we think we want and what we genuinely need are two very different things.Nora barely remembers her father. She grew up with a single mom who was emotionally abusive and who told her that her father abandoned them and was a horrible, abusive person himself. By the time she was in her first year of college, Nora got into a relationship with a minor league baseball player who she found out too late was involved in drugs. After living in a series of slums, her boyfriend brought her to Virgin River where he abandoned her and their two tiny daughters. Alone with no money, Nora had no idea what to do, but her neighbors in the small mountain town pulled together to help her get back on her feet. However, there’s not a lot of work to be found in such a small community, so when she sees the ad for apple pickers, she knows she has to apply even though the orchard is over three miles away and she has no car. After Tom’s grandmother, Maxie, hires her, she pulls out all the stops to prove that she’s an incredibly hard worker and worthy of the trust placed in her. Because of there being a mother bear and her three cubs on the loose near town, Tom insists on giving her a ride, and during this time, they slowly become friends. Nora finds herself longing for more between them, but she’s a practical woman who knows she’s no catch compared to Tom’s new lady friend and that she comes with extra responsibilities. But when Tom finally shows an interest in being more than just friends, she can’t resist. Nora is a very sympathetic character who’s down on her luck. She’s a wonderful mother to her two daughters and would literally do anything to keep them safe and fed. I liked that she was able to reconnect with her father and learn that he wasn’t the bad guy she’d been led to believe all her life and that he ended up being a huge support in her time of need. I also liked that she fell in love not only with Tom but with Maxie and the orchard too, showing that she was a perfect match for him.Tom’s father died when he was a kid and his mother abandoned him, so he was raised by Maxie in Virgin River. After his stint in the Marines, he returned to take up the apple farming business, and it’s his first harvest since being home. When Nora comes through his door, looking for work, he’s instantly attracted to her, but he’s sure that this tiny woman would never be able to keep up with the other pickers. Then Maxie insists on giving her a chance, and as Nora shows what a good worker she really is, Tom gradually warms up to her. But even though he likes her, he’s convinced that he wants a woman with less baggage. That’s why when Darla, the widow of an old Marine buddy, comes to visit, he starts casually dating her. He thinks she’s everything he wants in a woman, beautiful, sleek, and sophisticated with no kids or other encumbrances, but every weekend she comes to the orchard to visit, he begins to see more and more of her flaws. As Darla becomes less attractive, Nora becomes more so, but he’s still a little resistant to the idea of instant fatherhood and all of the other baggage Nora carries. When unexpected events lead to Nora’s imminent move away from Virgin River, Tom finally realizes exactly what he’d be missing. I liked Tom way back when he was first introduced to the series as a young man and I still liked him now. He’s maybe a bit clueless when it comes to what he really needs in a woman and he takes his good sweet time going after Nora, but he eventually figures it out and gets there. He’s a good guy who finally found the perfect woman for him.Like many of these latter Virgin River books, Sunrise Point didn’t really reach many emotional highs or lows. It’s kind of what I like to call a pleasant, easy, rainy-day type read that stays on an even keel throughout. The final couple of chapters where Tom finally gets his act together were a little more emotionally charged. Early on, I was a bit disappointed because Tom and Nora seem to just be in the friend zone, while he’s romancing another woman. I tend to be a rather jealous reader who doesn’t like my heroes and heroines to be involved with other people once they meet each other. However, this was really the primary conflict for a large part of the story. I grudgingly admit that it kept me reading, wondering when and how Tom was finally going to figure out that Darla was all wrong for him, and at least the one saving grace is that they never slept together. But still, I couldn’t help feeling like it took valuable time away from him getting to know Nora better. Luckily the author does make up for that somewhat during the final third of the book, so it ended up being a pretty good read in spite of my early misgivings. As is typical for this series, many of the Virgin River townspeople put in appearances, and Hank Cooper, one of the cornerstone characters in Robyn Carr’s Thunder Point series was introduced here. He’s friends with Luke Riordan and has a surprising connection to Jack that led to some uncharacteristic tension between the two men. Sunrise Point didn’t quite make it to the pinnacle of perfection for me, but I did enjoy it and can recommend it to fans of the series or of small town romances in general.
    • 5/5
      This book was another great Virgin River book. In each of these books, there are issues as well as the romance. In this one, the main character, Nora, has had a hard life. One of her problems is the way she was raised, by a borderline mother. The memories from her childhood were exceedingly hard for me to read, since my mother was a borderline. It was amazing to see it incorporated into a mainstream romance novel.

      As with many other Virgin River books, this book is about people who want to get married and have children, and the introduction of children into someone's life causes them to like children. This is the part that I find unrealistic about the VR series, and if you find such things offensive, you won't want to read most of what Robyn Carr has written. It's interesting to me, however, that in many other ways I find the characters more real than in the standard romance. Also note: these books have some graphic sexual scenes.

      I really have enjoyed the books, and I do recommend the series, and this book in particular, if you don't mind the above warnings. I recommend reading them in order. This one is the most recent one.



    • 3/5
      Tom Cavanaugh returns to the family apple orchard after a stint in the Marines. Strangely, the previous girlfriend, Brenda from previous books is just dropped by the author. But she introduces Nora, a single Mom trying to keep her family afloat. She gets a job picking apples, backbreaking labor, after walking 3 miles each way in all kinds of weather. But although she's nothing like what Tom envisions in a wife, Nora captures his attention. And his grandmother, Maxie, and the rest of the town is determined to get Nora and her family back on their feet.
    • 5/5
      Another good book in the Virgin River community. I thought both the main characters were really nice especially after some hard struggles. The action moved right along and I found the side situation with Jack rather interesting. Desperate for income, single mother Nora gets a job at ex-marine Tom's apple orchard.
    • 4/5
      A sweet Virgin River book. It was nice to see Nora find love and visit with some old friends.
    • 2/5
      Story ok but brought in extraneous plot that did not add anything to the basic story.
    • 4/5
      Nora Crane's made some bad decisions in life, which lead to her now living in Virgin River, squatting in a tiny abandoned house with two small daughters, while her ex-minor-league ballplayer turned meth-head ex-boyfriend rots in jail. Who would want to take on THAT mess?

      Not Tom Cavanaugh, former Marine and current boss of the family apple orchard. He knows what he wants in a woman, and Nora's not it; he doesn't even want to give her a seasonal job picking apples. But his grandmother insists and the scrappy single mother makes a go of it, impressing him despite himself.

      As the local counselor/pastor helps her to discover, Nora is not entirely alone in the world, after all; her father did not abandon her willingly, but gave up in the face of repeated rebuffs by her mother, and when he seemed to be making life worse for the little girl. My one quibble with this book is when Jed talks about how Nora's mother might have had borderline personality disorder, but how she wasn't REALLY mentally ill.

      There's a lot we don't understand about mental illness, and I don't have the credentials to diagnose anyone, let alone a fictional character. But the "personality" disorders - borderline, OCPD, narcissistic personality disorder are as real mental illnesses as anything else in the last two editions of the DSM, and those who have them, as well as those who are involved in family, love, or work relationships with someone so disordered, officially diagnosed or not, are well-advised to get qualified professional help. The damaging impacts can last a lifetime, especially if they are brushed off as not "real mental illness." It's potentially as harmful to grow up in a household with a disordered person as it is to grow up in a household where there is alcohol or drug addiction. [Climbing down off soapbox now.]

      These discussions only takes up a little of the book, but having such a mother and an absent father helps us understand why Nora made such bad decisions re: the boyfriend, and admire her all the more for her determination to make something of herself and for her girls.

      The heat between Tom - who is trying desperately to become attracted to a lovely woman with less emotional, if not literal, baggage, and Nora is slow to develop. She's attracted to him all the way through, but isn't going to hit on her boss, especially one who's dating another woman. Loved Maxie, the grandmother, the town events as described, and the way other characters make an appearance, here and there, but this book too works as a stand-alone.
    • 5/5
      Another wonderful journey into Virgin River and the beginning of a new plot...Can't wait for more :)
    • 4/5
      Sunrise Point A Virgin River Novel: Book 3ISBN: 9780778313175Author: Robyn Carrfeb 1 galley editionNora, who had at Christmas came to Virgin River and the townspeople had helpedher and her two small infants out, is now applying for a job apple picking tohelp with expenses as her two part-time jobs just don't make a lot.She gets many of the local women to help with the kids so she can work at theorchard til Tom finds out she's been injured. He takes matters into his own hands.He recalls another woman that he fell in love with one season and doesn't want tohave that repeated with Nora.They find themselves talking more to one another and realizing they come fromvery similar backgrounds as far as family goes. Things happen with Nora to reunitewith her family and she shares with him what she's been able to find out.As Tom has been busy repairing his orchard fences he enforces that Nora wait for himto pick her up and drop her off from work or the wild animals might mistake her forfood. The scenery is very country, everything is wild, flowers, food and animals.Sounds like a heavenly place to grow up where others care about one another and arethere to help lend a hand when one is needed.She tries to rebuild her past with help from Jed and the memories she did have that hermother told her never happened, did in fact happen. She's got a lot of healing to do totrust again.Tom has a deceased buddy's wife to visit for a weekend as she's on her way t study at anearby university. She's just gorgeous and Nora can't compete with even her looks, nevermind her clothes or car.Nora needs time to heal still and not feel like she's a failure.Other people in town come back to visit and it brings you up to date with what's going onin their lives. Even if you've never read a virgin river book you are introduced to the peopleas if you had never read any of the series, but if you have read the prior books it's just agood refresher course in what is the latest with them.Like how this book is so up to date with current events in the country: the BP oil spill andhow one of the people in the book are involved or perceived to work in the area and we aretold and given different opinions of what's really going on there.choices, so many of them...
    • 2/5
      This one just didn't do it for me. A big part of it was the dialog (and good heavens, this one has a lot of dialog! At times it seemed that's all this book was, one conversation after another sprinkled here and there with internal musings)--it just didn't read to me as real conversations that normal people would have. Even the internal dialog just didn't ring true. The romance--such as it was--was extremely slow to develop, up until the last ten pages or so, when it went into hyperdrive. It almost felt as if Carr suddenly realized she had to wrap it up, and wrap it up darn quick. Overall, it was extremely predictable, which isn't necessarily a bad thing (nor unexpected, in the romance genre), but a few surprises--with the writing if not with the plot--here or there would be nice. Once again a seemingly unrelated and random plot line was inserted--and yes, it's obviously in order to give the new character, Coop, his own book in the future, I get that--but it really didn't increase my interest in either this story or the future one; instead it just made this one seem even longer than it already was.

      Eternal optimist that I am, I'm still going ahead with the series--I just hope the next installment has more going for it than this one, which just seemed to be resting on the series' laurels a bit too much.
    • 4/5
      A sweet and heartwarming story. An impoverished single mother finds strength in herself and friends to face enumerable obstacles and difficult life circumstances. A super strong heroin, with great character growth! A super strong heroin, with great character growth! Robyn Carr knows how to twist you right into her creations and make you feel a part of the Virgin River family.
    • 3/5
      Don’t expect this story to be man falls in love with woman at first site and pursues her. Robyn Carr gives you a more realistic kind of love story in Sunrise Point.A young, single mother finds herself needing money in a bad way. Her two small children are depending on her after their father abandoned them. An opportunity arises when an orchard needs help with picking apples. It isn’t long before she finds herself drawn into the warm family running the orchard and discovering more of her own past in the process.This story moved at a decent pace. It was not too fast paced or too slow though there was one storyline that slowed it down considerably. The author introduced another story halfway through the book that just didn’t fit too well within the rest of the story. It felt out of place and caused me to pause in my reading.Ms. Carr writes in a realistic style. The characters make conversational mistakes they would have in real life. They react like someone in this world would have. There is no glorified speech that is perfect each time. This was a little awkward at first but as I read the story I could see people actually acting like that. I could see myself being like that. I guess I was too used to ‘perfect’ characters.There is one intimate scene that could easily be skipped over if you desire. It is not exceedingly graphic but enough to make some people uncomfortable. Any other mention of such things is done through the thoughts of others.The realistic writing style and the sweet story make this a good choice on your summer reading list or your fall one over a cup of hot apple cider. It’s a slower paced book so you can easily sat it down to do other things and pick it up to finish.Note: This book was provided by the publisher with no expectations of a positive review.
    • 4/5
      What you get isn’t always what you wanted, but sometimes it’s what you needed.As always the Virgin River series is chock full of memorable characters and Sunrise Point definitely lived up to that expectation. The storyline was sweet and full of lessons on life and love that will have you thinking about it long after the stories over.Tom is opinionated, stubborn, loyal, and the sweetest man you will ever meet. I loved getting to know him as well as Nora especially when they were butting heads. These two were perfect for each other and I couldn’t get enough of them. Nora has many of the same traits as Tom, but because of her tough life she learned her lessons the hard way.I recommend this story to anyone looking for a touching story and a sweet romance.
    • 4/5
      When Carr gets it right, she gets it so right. I was disappointed with the last installment in the series [book:Redwood Bend|12396192], it was a three star book -- still good but not great. But Sunrise Point makes up for that and more. While Sunrise Point has a few characters from previous books, I believe that this book can be read out of order and as a standalone, however it does push along the story arc as well and close up some loose ends. The heroine of the story was first introduced in [book:Bring Me Home for Christmas|11216649] and has appeared in a few of the stories since #16. There are some visits with the good old characters -- Noah, Jack and Ellie are referenced, but that is about it. The story truly centers around Tom and Nora, Nora's personal struggles to raise her family and deal with her family history, and Tom's desire to settle down with the right woman. As in most of the Virgin River stories, there is a small love triangle that is not tension filled and used mainly to allow the characters to see what they really want out of life. The love interest that ends up getting discarded is funny and the scenes surrounding her make it clear she is not going to be the one chosen. Tom, the hero of Sunrise Point, has to figure out if what he wants is simply a beautiful woman or a woman that may have some baggage, but is truly he his soulmate. In a funny way, Carr shows what it takes to be really beautiful and thin (definitely not eating the rich and fat meals often served in Virgin River!) and the hero figures out there is more to what he wants in his partner. Nora had a rocky beginning introduction in Virgin River, in [book:Bring Me Home for Christmas|11216649] she is abandoned with two small young kids and no means to support them. Since book #16, Carr doesn't use this as merely a throw in story, she shows how Nora struggles to get a job that will pay for babysitting, how she struggles to buy clothes and car seats. Carr doesn't fail to show how hard it can be for a single mother without means and family to help her. Sunrise Point is not as steamy as the past few Virgin River books and it is much slower paced. But it is still very sweet and rewarding.
    • 5/5
      5 STARSI like her books. Sunrise Point does not disappoint at all.Nora is a single mother with a baby and a two year old. Her boyfriend abandoned her and took most of the furniture even the fridge and left her in small abounded house. It was winter and she had a 2 week baby at a time.The town when they found out all pulled together to help her. Nora had 2 part time jobs but when she heard their were jobs at a apple farm for pickers. Nora almost did not get hired because Tom was attracted to her and thought she was two small. Maxi Tom's grandmother though hired her.She walked 31/2 miles to the farm and after picking all day walked back to the town. But she was happy to be able to support her children better. Tom had been away from the apple farm for 10 years, 4 years of school and 6 years as a marine. He was home to stay at the apple farm. His grandparents raised him. Tom was ready to get married but he did not wantone with baggage.Maxi had one son and raised her grandson. Her husband has been dead for ten years. She is in her 70s and still picks apples, cleans and cooks. Very active life.Their is drama,community,humor,reunion with father. I hated to put the book down last night.I was given this ebook to read in exchange for honest review from Netgalley.04/24/2012 PUB Harlequin Mira
    • 4/5
      Great Addition to a Good SeriesNora Crane’s mother had borderline mental problems, leaving Nora, herself, vulnerable to the first guy who looked her way. Then he left her with two babies, severely low self-esteem, and memories of abuse in the middle of the tiny town of Virgin River. Desperate to find employment, Nora decides to walk three miles to an apple orchard that is hiring where she meets Tom Cavanaugh, a veteran ready to settle down on his family orchard. Unfortunately, Tom does not want a connection to someone that comes with children and problems. This is a fun romance, with interesting characters and setting. The reader roots for Nora as she attempts to pull herself out of her problems. This story is cleaner than most and a light read. Great addition to a good series, but it does well as a read alone novel. Recommended for those who are looking for a better than average romance.Received Galley from NetGalley.com