He immediately turns her down, telling her that he’s hired on all that he can and she’s out of luck. When Nora arrives at Cavanaugh’s to apply for the job, Tom takes one look at her tiny stature and slight build and knows that she’d never be able to haul around a 50 lb. She’s not quite sure how she’ll manage it, but they need the money, badly, and she’s got nothing to lose. When she sees an ad looking for apple pickers at the Cavanaugh Orchard she decides to apply. With literally nothing to her name, she’s made a home for herself and her two little girls and survived that first winter with the help of her neighbors, but now she’s ready to pull her own weight and provide for her children. All alone with no family to call for help, Nora had no choice than to accept the generosity and charity of the town. However, after he’d moved her and their two very small children into an abandoned house, he simply up and left her. Her boyfriend claimed to have work lined up. When Nora Crane landed in Virgin River, it was the dead of winter. And he had a picture in his head of the perfect woman to settle down with.

He was ready for a wife, a family and everything that would come with it. But after a tour in Afghanistan, he was more than ready to come home and settle down. He went away to college, joined the Marines and got to see some of the world he’d dreamed about. As a kid growing up and doing all the hard work surrounding life on a farm, he couldn’t wait to get away from it. Tom Cavanaugh has come home to Virgin River to help his elderly grandmother with the apple orchard that has been in their family for generations. Sunrise Point by Robyn Carr (Virgin River #19)