[1] It tells the story of lonely Claire Waverley after her long-lost sister Sydney comes back to town after being gone for over ten years.

Claire runs a successful catering business based around edible flowers, and refuses to let anyone into her life.

It turns out that Emma's mother Ariel Clark set the situation up to try to show Hunter John that Sydney was trash, and Claire was unaware of her motives.

They all have an enjoyable time, but the town gossips, namely Ariel Clark and her friends, tell everyone about it and say Claire is acting like a teenager, even though she's thirty-six.

Evanelle arrives early and reveals to Claire and Sydney that their mother ate an apple from their tree many years earlier, and most likely saw the car accident in which she was to die.

When Claire explains to Tyler what must have happened, he tells her that he ate an apple and didn't run off screaming into the night.

The book ends with Bay lying beneath the apple tree, recreating a dream she had about being in the garden.