Twenty-eight-year-old Grace Dillon loves her life and small flower shop, Pretty Petals, in Thunder Point, Oregon. What she hasn't revealed to anyone is that she is daughter to the wealthy heiress Winnie Dillon Banks who has pushed her child to become the 2010 Olympics Gold Medal star. Grace is actually Isabella Grace Dillon Banks, known as "Izzy", the fourteen- year-old spoiled child whose mother's money could buy her the gold medal. So not true! Grace practiced round the clock, privately tutored, and was confined with no social life or friends.

Finally having had enough, Grace wins the medal for her mother at twenty-three and announces her retirement, causing her estrangement from her driven mother. Staying with former staff of Winnie's now proprietors of a flower shop in Portland, she learns her trade and love of flowers. Buying Pretty Petals has gained her many close friends, all unaware of her fame. Falling in love with the high school history teacher, Troy Headley, Grace is experiencing her very first boyfriend and lover. When she is forced to reveal her past fame and financial status, things become sticky. Learning her mother has ALS and dying, plus revealing the enormous extent of their wealth as well as the shocking surprise she reveals to Troy, what she thought might be her happy future with Troy is now in jeopardy.

I have read many of ROBYN CARR'S novels and am just as impressed with each new one. She has an uncanny gift for creating new and refreshing plots and characters in each tale, keeping them original, exciting and emotional. I love her novels so much that I keep posted in advance of all upcoming releases. ONE WISH is an emotional but beautiful read! A must for that "remembered" novel.