Love in Provence by William Auch

When John Martin is forced to sell his tech company, he decides to take a six month vacation to the south of France. When he meets Madame Garcin, her daughter Sophie, and her granddaughter Isabelle, his life is changed forever. What began as a long vacation becomes a journey of self discovery marked by love, loss, and tragedy. He is molded by this family of three generations of women, tempered by tragedy themselves, in ways that he could never have imagined.