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 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...

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....

A fierce, tender, and utterly original work, a story of family, love, and the mysteries that bind us.In this haunting and unforgettable novel, first published in 2001, Melanie Rae Thon entwines family myth with the currents of American history, tracing the patterns of loss, wandering, and the quiet violence that shapes generations. At its center are Flint, a sixteen-year-old caught between boyhood's follies and the hardened instincts of a criminal, and his...

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 fierce, tender, and utterly original work, a story of family, love, and the mysteries that bind us.In this haunting and unforgettable novel, first published in 2001, Melanie Rae Thon entwines family myth with the currents of American history, tracing the patterns of loss, wandering, and the quiet violence that shapes generations. At its center are Flint, a sixteen-year-old caught between boyhood's follies and the hardened instincts of a criminal, and his...

'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...

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...

“A journey well worth taking.” **—Abby Jimenez, New York Times bestselling authorThe New York Times bestselling author delivers an emotional, intimate work of women’s fiction centered on a young widow, and filled with reflections on love, loss, and finding hope, and even joy, after heartache—for fans of Josie Silver, Sophie Cousens, and Rebecca Serle.**No marriage is perfect, but in Rachel Ackermann’s eyes, hers came close. From the very s...

A single dad, who’s in over his head, and an event planner running from her past, are drawn together on charming Bluestar Island by a determined seven-year-old and her escape-artist goat.Event planner, Charlotte “Aster” Smith, has fled the only life she has ever known. The situation has left her questioning her own judgment as she cautiously tries to create a new life for herself on Bluestar Island. Taking the job of event coordinator for the small town is a step i...