Secrets from the past change the course of three sisters’ lives in an instant.Alice’s life was turned upside down with the death of her husband, Peter, six months ago. Facing the future alone, she is now opening the dream they created together—the North Star Inn—hoping it will be the same guiding light in her life that Peter always was.While Alice’s two younger sisters try to support her, they face their own challenges. Brooke is climbing an uphill battle a...

Heartache blooms in Alice with the passing of each milestone without her husband. Her looming birthday is no different.Alice is almost fifty years old. And alone. Peter has been gone for ten months. It may not be getting any easier to live without him, but it is becoming normal. So normal, that her friends urge her to look for happiness in a partner. A prospect Alice can’t imagine. She finally agrees to give it a shot on one condition—her friend Marci Jewell does t...

Alice, Viv, and Josie are doing their best living in the present as the past and future collide.The forecasted ice storm brings Golden Bay, Vermont to a standstill, including any flights in or out for Alice’s guests at the North Star Inn. As the town shuts down and power goes out, Alice’s inn becomes a place of refuge for her family members. But along with her daughters and sister come memories of the past and hopes for the future that don’t always line up....

Alice never thought she’d see her daughter marry without her husband at her side. She’s powerless to keep the future from coming, or the past from haunting her every waking moment.With back-to-back weddings at the North Star Inn, Alice is in no position to put out her friends’ or families’ fires. But that’s just what happens when her sisters show up with disasters that can’t wait. A phone call from her father sends her world spinning, nearly drowning Alice in fears...

She’s a woman who dreams of hearth and home... He’s a man with dreams as big as the Montana sky... Together they could make those dreams come true…if she wasn’t promised to another.Caroline Bishop leaves war-ravaged Charleston behind to be a mail-order bride for a man she’s never met. Meeting handsome Adam Larsen, a man who makes her pulse race with a single glance, along the way seems like a cruel twist of fate, especially when she learns he lives in the same small town she’s head...

A powerful story of siblings, love, and the legacy of loss.In this unforgettable novel, Melanie Rae Thon fuses family myth with the cross currents of American history, exposing the violence that shapes individuals across generations.At sixteen, Flint Zimmer has already spent eight years in juvenile detention. Now he’s escaped and returned home to the one person he loves and trusts: his little sister, Cecile.Together they rob a local doctor, steal th...

A powerful story of siblings, love, and the legacy of loss.In this unforgettable novel, Melanie Rae Thon fuses family myth with the cross currents of American history, exposing the violence that shapes individuals across generations.At sixteen, Flint Zimmer has already spent eight years in juvenile detention. Now he’s escaped and returned home to the one person he loves and trusts: his little sister, Cecile.Together they rob a local doctor, steal th...

'No one gets to the heart of human relationships quite so perceptively as Brookfield' The MirrorOn the day that her youngest child leaves home, Alice Hatton discovers two disturbing truths in a matter of hours.The Empty Nest cliche is true.And she does not love her husband Peter at all.Now in her fifties, Alice is appalled to realise that she is no longer considered her own person, but is instead defined by her relationships – mot...

It’s 1971, and Joan Dumann fears her former business partner wants her dead—but her anxiety is less about dying than it is about feeling disrespected and invalidated. As she constructs a letter about her predicament, she revisits her past.Born into a prominent Philadelphia Quaker family in 1915 and raised with privilege and opportunity, Joan wrestles with her turbulent thoughts and unfulfilled desires—an internal battle that often results in self-destructive tendencies. When she att...

This summer doesn't just unearth the past, it threatens to unravel Sabrina's life completely.Her alcoholic father is dying, she's estranged from her family, and she's only surviving motherhood thanks to bottomless cups of coffee and secret cigarettes. After years of trying to avoid her issues, she finally comes face-to-face with them on a reluctant journey back to Seaside, Massachusetts. And this time—she doesn't run away.But returning home sends Sabrina sp...

Take the plunge into the feel-good, magical world of Sian O'Gorman's fantastic books...Can learning to say yes change your life?When Cat Jones is given the opportunity of a lifetime to present one of Ireland’s most popular live daytime shows, alongside TV royalty David Fitzgerald she isn’t sure she is ready for the challenge.But after being pushed by her mother’s friend Lorraine to say 'yes' to everything for a month, she relucta...

Early McGrath doesn't want freedom from her thirty-year marriage to Nash, but when it's forced upon her, she does the only thing she knows to do - she goes home to the Ridge to reinvent herself.Only what is someone who's spent her life taking care of other people supposed to do when no one needs her anymore? Even as the threads of her life unravel, she finds new ones - reconnecting with the church of her childhood, building the quilt shop that has been a long-time dream, and forging...