Fifty years ago, a Nantucket father made an irreparable mistake that altered the course of many people's lives. But now, his daughter has returned to the island — and she's ready to face the past.Eloise's father kicked her out at sixteen. She had nothing — no love, no happiness, no safety — for years, until she married and moved to Indiana with a man named Liam. There, they had an at-times strained marriage, praying for children who never came. Three years ago, Liam passed away, and now, their farm has burned down, leaving Eloise with nothing, all over again — just like when she was sixteen.Julia's daughter, Anna, lives in Seattle, where she works as a travel writer. When she goes to Orcas Island on a writing assignment, her boyfriend, Dean, surprises her there with a question that's bound to change their lives. But a freak accident on Orcas Island destroys Anna's sense of self — and she's forced to return to Nantucket Island to seek...

The Copperfields were once the most beloved family on Nantucket Island. Twenty-five years ago, their lives changed forever. And they never saw one another again.Not until now.In the spring of 1997, Julia watched as a judge sentenced her father, the renowned novelist, Bernard Copperfield, to twenty-five years in prison for conning, swindling, and stealing millions of dollars from his dearest Nantucket friends and fellow artists. With her family in ruins around her, seventeen-year-old Julia packed up her bags and ran away, pledging never to return to Nantucket ever again.Now forty-three, Julia Copperfield finds herself in the midst of another crisis. The publishing company she built from the ground up is on the brink of collapse; her husband, Jackson, makes an announcement that shocks her to the core; and her adult children have left her an empty-nester. During those long nights alone, she finds herself daydreaming about long-lost hours at the The Copperfield...

A never-before-seen Christmas guest arrives to the island, filled with secrets of her own. The Sheridans welcome a brand-new baby. Complications arise left and right as the Sheridan sisters grapple with another season of changes.The Sheridan sisters' mother, Anna Sheridan never spoke much about her family, which is why the appearance of her younger sister is a surprise for all of them. She brings with her a host of troubles at the very worst time, as Audrey arrives home from a tumultuous semester at Penn State, just as Christine gives birth to her very first child.Audrey has had a horrendous time away from baby Max. She grapples with guilt for going after her dreams, as she fears missing out on more essential moments in Max's life, and also questions her feelings for the handsome man she met earlier this year, when Max was in the hospital after birth. Romantic love has never been particularly good to her. Why should she trust it, now?Christine faces the...

Deception in Bar Harbor is book two and will be releasing September 14th!Dive into this new women's fiction series, Mount Desert Island – an unfolding family drama of heartache, longing and secrets on a beautiful island off the coast of Maine.

A widow on the brink of enormous change. A shock of a lifetime that nearly tears a family in two. And an old man who, as it turns out, isn't done living quite yet — not by a long shot.Charlotte Hamner lost her beloved husband Jason three years ago. His death nearly destroyed her — but with the help of her dearest sisters and cousins in the Montgomery and Sheridan clans, she was able to find hope once more, one day at a time, and ultimately build her wedding planning business back to new heights.Against all odds, she found love again with the dashing photographer, Everett.It's September, the tail-end of a glorious summer on Martha's Vineyard. Everett gets a once in a lifetime opportunity to work on an island in the northwest, near his family who live in Seattle.Charlotte is terrified to tell him not to go. How can she stand between this wonderful man and his wildest dreams?Meanwhile, another member of the Montgomery...

The Copperfield Artist Residency reopens for a spectacular season — welcoming artists, musicians, and writers from all over the country for a summer that will change their lives forever.Ella Copperfield bit off more than she can chew this summer. There's the Nantucket Music Festival, the reopening of the artist residency, and her marriage to Will — all in a matter of weeks.And then, Aurora Bills arrives to the residency and flips everyone's world upside down.Aurora is thirty-five years old, relatively homeless, and immensely talented. For years, she was the single caregiver for her mother, who suffered from schizophrenia up until her recent death. Now, Aurora is aimless and terrified of her mother's diagnosis — one she's not sure she can escape.As Aurora dives into her music and painting at The Copperfield House, her mind plays horrible tricks on her, and she begins to think the Copperfield Family and the handsome...

Olivia Hesson finds herself in a world of family secrets, new loves, and historic buildings -- all because of her great-aunt's will.When her great-aunt passes away, she names Olivia the sole owner of one of the oldest historic buildings in Edgartown, with one demand—she must return it to its former glory.This is a lot to swallow.Like the other Sisters of Edgartown, Olivia hasn't had an easy road. She married her high school sweetheart, Tyler, and had a child, Chelsea, but found herself living out a nightmare of separation and divorce when Tyler fled the Vineyard for a better life in Boston.Since then, she's worked as the English & Creative Writing teacher at the local high school. Olivia has tried her best to manage her teenage daughter, Chelsea, who is angry and resents her for her father leaving.Her inheritance—old historic building is rife with secrets. It creaks and sighs with long-forgotten stories. And it captures Olivia's fascination in a way that surprises her.Of course, the maintenance man who lives there surprises her, too.This is book two of the Sisters of Edgartown Series: a new women's fiction series that contains a heartwarming journey of friendship, loss, and love, and one that will make you fall in love with the people of Edgartown and want the next book.For fans of Pamela Kelley, Caroline Brown, and Debbie Macomber.

A mysterious stranger arrives at Martha's Vineyard. One of the family's own receives a life-altering diagnosis. This is a Christmas nobody at the Katama Lodge will ever forget.After the recent death of her father, Maggie aches to have a family of her own— but soon learns that the world she so craved will not be hers so easily. While other women in their twenties get pregnant on the fly, she finds herself cursed with a body she no longer understands.But telling this health news to her loving husband or even her mother and sister makes her feel even less in control. She keeps this secret close to her heart and runs back to the Vineyard to grieve alone, pretending all is "just fine." Such is the way of Maggie Potter.Meanwhile, Vineyard-stranger Linda is a lonely and depressed woman of sixty-five. She arrives at the Katama Lodge and Wellness Spa without hope of ever resolving her previous issues, but soon stumbles into Maggie Potter, a young woman who...

A Martha's Vineyard fisherman's widow gets a second chance at love over a snow-capped Thanksgiving weekend. Charlotte Montgomery Hamner wakes up every morning to the same thoughts.Jason died. Jason isn't coming back. Rachel and I must go through this alone.Since Jason drowned over a year and a half ago, Charlotte has struggled moving forward. She owns a popular wedding planning and events business and throws some of the most expensive and intricately-coordinated weddings, occasionally featuring celebrities, and always with her fourteen-year-old daughter's help. But her devastation is so complete that sometimes she struggles to get out of bed in the morning.As Thanksgiving approaches, a celebrity asks Charlotte to plan a gorgeous, multi-million-dollar wedding on Martha's Vineyard—the kind of event that would put her on the next tier of wedding planning and get her featured in some of the top wedding magazines around the country.With much...

Martha's Vineyard's Sisters of Edgartown face their forties -- a decade of change, of heartache, of divorce, of illness, and of second-chances and love. Just as they've done everything else, they'll do this together. Side-by-side, till the end.Twenty-three years ago, Jennifer Connelly's twin sister, Michelle, died in a boating accident. She was the sixth Sister of Edgartown, the best-friendship-group that struck gold with one another at age four -- Jennifer, Michelle, Olivia, Mila, Camilla, and Amelia.The accident changed their lives forever, of course -- but it hit Jennifer particularly hard. Michelle had been so much of what Jennifer wasn't: wild and electric and untethered.Now, just weeks from her forty-first birthday, Jennifer faces another season of strife. In the previous year, her marriage ended; her son got engaged; and her father took to the bottle hard. Just when she throws herself totally into her social media business, she receives a call from Camilla, a nurse at the hospital: her mother has had a stroke.It seems likely her already-broken family has even more breaking to do.Her mother's recovery is a long one. Never one to give up, Jennifer throws herself into her mother's bakery, the Frosted Delights, as Christmas approaches. There's no way she'll let that third-generation bakery fall apart. Not when everything else is.But a handsome stranger may stand in the way of the business. He demands she leave the premises, as he bought the property months ago -- and has plans to tear it down to break ground on yet another hotel and event space.Jennifer and the other Sisters of Edgartown must pull together to fight for the Frosted Delights Bakery, for their families, and for the island of Martha's Vineyard itself. They've already lost so much. There's no way they'll let him take this.Dive into book one of the Sisters of Edgartown: A heartwarming journey of friendship, loss, and love, and one that will make you fall in love with the Sisters of Edgartown and want the next book.For fans of Pamela Kelley, Caroline Brown, and Debbie Macomber.

A house-swap between distant islands. A widow standing at a crossroads. Two women whose lives will be forever changed after an unforgettable summer. Late spring on Martha's Vineyard brings blooming hydrangeas, salty breezes, and, for Eva, mounting pressures. She's sure her boyfriend of the past eight years is finally going to propose, and she's ready, she thinks. Her mother Meghan and Aunt Oriana have been planning her wedding in their heads for years, and they haven't stopped pestering her about it. But instead of a ring, Eva gets news that shatters her future overnight. Half the world away on a sun-drenched Greek island called Paros, a fifty-six-year-old artist named Dimitra struggles to rebuild after the death of her husband Kostos. Her large, well-meaning family hovers too close, and her sister’s constant meddling only deepens her grief. Then a call from her free-spirited friend Rachelle offers a way a summer home swap with her cousin Eva. “I think you both need this,” Rachelle says, and Dimitra, on a whim, agrees. As Dimitra steps into the rhythm of life on Martha’s Vineyard—morning walks, literary readings, and the unexpected kindness of the Coleman clan—she begins to rediscover herself. And when a mysterious man on a sailboat enters her life, she must is it too late to begin again? Meanwhile in Paros, a vibrant community draws Eva into the fold, celebrating life's messy beauty and dancing late into the night. But when she begins working for a reclusive marble sculptor named Jean-Paul, she learns something serious about Dimitra's deceased husband -- something that could change everything. Footprints in the Sand is book thirteen of The Coleman Series series, a heart-wrenching yet hopeful family drama that unfolds between the glittering shores of Nantucket Island and Martha's Vineyard.

On a summer night in 1983, a mysterious woman carried her baby into The Sunrise Cove Inn — and their lives were changed forever. Forty years later, the Sheridan Family must come together to help them yet again, before the past is lost for good.Top-rate journalist Lola Sheridan is renowned for her ability to get to the heart of any story. When a university professor contacts her to dig into her past, Lola jumps at the opportunity, especially when Audrey agrees to help.But as Lola and Audrey dive into the professor's remarkable origins, they learn that the horrors of her story align with the Sheridan Family's. The deeper they go, the more they're drawn into the long-lost world of Anna Sheridan — learning of her heartache, her loneliness, and her fight for a better future.Dive into the seventeenth book of the Vineyard Sunset Series, in which a vibrant cast of characters live out their dreams on Martha's Vineyard. This is the story...

Quentin Copperfield never thought it would come to this. He had everything. Where did he go wrong?Quentin's at the top of his game. He's the nightly news anchor for the biggest broadcast company in the United States. On top of that, he has three beautiful children and a wonderful wife, Catherine. What more could he want?But life isn't done with him yet. Out of the blue, his wife is diagnosed with cancer, and Quentin finds himself reeling. With Catherine so sick, his career no longer matters to him, and his father's invitation to Nantucket is looking more and more appealing. Maybe he should take his family out of the city for a while. Maybe he should make up for all the time he gave to his career instead of his family.Meanwhile, Quentin's oldest daughter, Scarlet, is in the midst of her own upheaval. For years, she and her father have fought about Scarlet's boyfriend, a filmmaker she lives with in Brooklyn. These days, Scarlet and Quentin hardly...

A hidden sea cottage on the beach. Two secret affairs. And motherly love that transcends time and space — no matter what.Aria Baldwin did the unthinkable: she ran away from her family's money, dropped out of college, and moved to Martha's Vineyard. She's lost, frightened, and unsure of herself — but she's also falling head-over-heels with Cole Steel, whom she met onboard a sailboat in the Caribbean.Upon her arrival to Martha's Vineyard, Aria receives a mysterious letter with a newspaper clipping from over thirty years ago, which leaves Aria with numerous questions about her mother's past. To Aria, her mother has never been more than her father's puppet — but she's beginning to think she doesn't have the whole story.Like Aria, Carmella never thought her mother cared for her at all. But when Elsa gives Carmella one of their mother's diaries, Carmella learns about her mother's sordid affair — one that very nearly split up their family...