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1) Last summer
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The town of Yorktide, close to Maine s beautiful beaches and the city of Portland, seems like the perfect place to raise a family. For Jane Patterson, there's another advantage: her best friend, Frannie Giroux, lives next door, and their teenaged daughters, Rosie and Meg, are inseparable. But in the girls freshman year of high school, everything changes. Rosie quiet, shy, and also very pretty attracts the sneers and slights of a clique of older girls....
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Some houses have a personality of their own. Larchmere is that kind of place -- a splendid, sprawling home with breathtaking views that open to briny Atlantic air and seabirds' calls. It's the place where Tilda McQueen O'Connell grew up and now vacations each year, and where she and her three siblings -- Adam, Hannah, and Craig -- have gathered to commemorate the tenth anniversary of their mother's passing. But instead of the bittersweet but relaxing...
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At Blueberry Bay bed and breakfast in Maine, Louise Bessire and her fifteen-year-old daughter, Isobel, anticipate an exciting summer. Louise is hosting an important wedding that could make her business. Isobel is looking forward to writing her style and fashion blog and getting to know charming nineteen-year-old Jeff Otten. As the wedding draws closer, Louise has little time for her daughter. Feeling isolated, especially after her father cancels a...
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Every year on March 26th, Verity Peterson visits Ogunquit Beach, where she puts a handwritten message into a bottle and launches it into the waves. It's a ritual of remembrance for the daughter she hasn't seen in sixteen years -- not since her baby's father, Alan, took two-month-old Gemma and disappeared. Verity keeps searching and hoping, sustained by the thought that someday she might get to be a mother to her own child. And finally, one phone call...
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Everyone in Yorktide, Maine, knows sixteen-year-old Sarah Bauer. She's a good student, a dutiful daughter, and Cordelia Kane's best friend. It's a surprise to all when Sarah reveals that she's pregnant. Her family is shocked but supportive. But while Sarah reconciles herself to a new future, the consequences ripple in all directions. Sarah's mother seizes on an idea: band together and make a baby quilt. Piece by piece, a beautiful design emerges as...
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"At first glance, Nell King's cozy home in Yorktide seems a step down from the impeccably decorated Boston house she shared with her husband. But in the six years since he abruptly left to marry another woman, Nell and her almost-grown daughters have found real happiness here. Now, faced with what may be their last Christmas together, Nell feels anxious. She gave up her own ambitions when she married. With the daily obligations of motherhood coming...
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With their painful divorce looming, radio psychologist Bess Cameron and her soon-to-be-ex husband, John Mystic, meet at Maine's Seascape Inn to finalize the terms of a property settlement. Bess believes John is in love with someone else, and she's determined to move on without him. Their marriage appears doomed until the Inn's matchmaking ghost, Tony, and its irrepressible owner, Miss Hattie, take matters in hand. Sometimes you have to leap upon a...
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The journey to Yorktide, Maine, was always a happy one for Frieda and Aaron Braithwaite and their two daughters. Frieda loves her mother's old farmhouse, and the girls have grown closer there, sharing a bedroom and spinning stories into the night. But that was before -- when tragedy was something that happened to other families. Since the car crash that claimed the lives of her husband, and their younger daughter, Frieda has struggled emotionally...
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"Birch Tree, Maine, is experiencing a rash of deaths, all mysteriously linked to food trucks that frequent the Birch Point Lake Park. Mey's noodle truck was her ticket to a new life, until her ex-boyfriend threatens to take it away. Angel's new donut truck was doing great, until deathly rumors started. Shanice thought she had customer support when taking over her grandpa's potato truck, until one started complaining. Marisol's taco truck is a fixture...
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