The Rose Garden / Susanna Kearsley / 441 pages

After her sister's death, Eva heads back to Cornwall to stay with childhood friends.  Looking for comfort, healing, and a new purpose in life, she instead stumbles into the past...literally.  Walking through the house and land of her youth, she finds herself sporadically transported back 300 years.  Weaving in and out of past and present, she finds herself questioning where she is really meant to be.  Combining historical fiction, romance, and time travel, Kearsley does an amazing job creating a book that is both heartwarming and well-developed.

Water, Stone, Heart / Will North 140 p.

Recently divorced Andrew Stratton does something out of character, signs up for a course on mortarless stone-wall building in Boscastle, Cornwall England. Once there he befriends his landlord's daughter Lilly, a precocious 10-year old with depth of knowledge about Boscastle and it's surrounds. His ex's parting salvo motivates him to embrace this change, he falls in love with the area and its people. Though the slow growing romance between Andrew and also divorced Nicola Rhys-Jones are of interest, the real treat in this story is the loving description of Cornwall.