Summary
What happens when a woman who has given up on love finds herself surrounded by the one thing that refuses to let her forget it – a field of lavender in full bloom, and a stranger who sees exactly who she is? Love and Lavender by Josi S. Kilpack is a tender, emotionally layered romance about returning home, healing old wounds, and discovering that the life you thought was over might just be the one worth fighting for.
Audiobook Info
- Author: Josi S. Kilpack
- Narrator: Justine Eyre
- Duration: 9 hours and 45 minutes
- Publisher: Shadow Mountain Publishing
- Release Date: January 4, 2022
Review
At the heart of Love and Lavender is something that sets it apart from the crowded field of contemporary romance: it is, above all else, a story about rebuilding. Josi S. Kilpack doesn’t reach for the quick dopamine hit of instant attraction or manufactured drama. Instead, she plants her story in soil that feels genuinely lived-in – a lavender farm in rural Utah where protagonist Hazel carries the weight of a life that didn’t go as planned. That grounding in real emotional consequence gives the romance that follows a richness and resonance that lingers well after the final chapter.
Kilpack’s character work is where this novel truly distinguishes itself. Hazel is not waiting to be rescued – she is actively, sometimes painfully, in the process of rescuing herself. Her journey back to the lavender farm is less about nostalgia and more about reckoning, and Kilpack renders that internal landscape with remarkable precision. The male lead is equally well-drawn, arriving in Hazel’s orbit not as a savior but as someone equally unfinished, equally in need of something he can’t quite name. The slow convergence of these two people, both bruised and both quietly hopeful, is the emotional engine of the audiobook – and it hums with quiet, compelling power throughout.
Justine Eyre’s narration is a masterclass in emotional restraint deployed at exactly the right moments. Her voice carries a natural warmth that suits the pastoral, unhurried rhythm of Kilpack’s prose, and she never overplays the emotional beats – a temptation that lesser narrators often can’t resist in romance. What makes Eyre’s performance particularly effective is how she differentiates the interior life of the characters from their outward dialogue, giving listeners a layered sense of what each character is feeling versus what they allow themselves to say. Her pacing mirrors the story’s own – deliberately slow to build, then quietly devastating when the emotional payoff finally arrives.
The listening experience itself is immersive in a way that feels almost sensory. Kilpack writes the lavender farm with such tactile specificity – the scent, the season, the labor of it – that Eyre’s narration transforms it into something you feel you could step into. There is a meditative quality to the audiobook that makes it ideal for long afternoon listens, the kind where you lose track of time entirely. Fans of character-driven romance who appreciate emotional authenticity over plot twists will find themselves completely absorbed. This is not a book that rushes toward its ending; it invites you to settle into its world, and rewards the patience it asks of you.
Listeners who gravitate toward romance that doubles as women’s fiction – stories where love is one significant thread in a larger tapestry of self-discovery – will find Love and Lavender to be a deeply satisfying listen. It is the kind of audiobook that readers of Susan Wiggs, RaeAnne Thayne, or Debbie Macomber will recognize immediately: rooted in place, generous with emotion, and honest about the messiness of starting over. Kilpack has crafted something genuinely moving here, and Justine Eyre’s performance ensures that every quiet, beautiful moment of it lands exactly as intended.
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