In which trek reviews After the Leaves Fall

I enjoyed Beneath the Night Tree,by Nicole Baart enough that I immediately located the first book in the series, After the Leaves Fall.This is the beginning of Julia DeSmit's story.

Here the reader follows Julia from childhood to college. Mom, Janice, walked out on the family when Julia was nine and Julia and her father moved in with his parents on their farm. During her high school years, Julia developed a strong friendship with (and crush on) the next door neighbor boy, Thomas. Her father died when she was fifteen. Through all of her life, Julia's grandmother was unwavering in her support even, or maybe especially, when Julia returned home from her very difficult first semester of college.

Having started this series out of order, it is really tempting to drop some spoilers here. I won't but I will say that occasionaly the amount of time passing between chapters is a little bit ambiguous.

I read After the Leaves Fall very quickly and immediately started the second book, Summer Snow.