Christine Sheridan faces the life she never knew she wanted: one of motherhood, companionship, and everlasting love on Martha's Vineyard. She just never imagined there'd be such heartache along the way.Audrey gives birth at the end of February. Although she's young, healthy, one of the most vibrant people on the Vineyard, the birth is a troubling one — and the baby's health is cast into doubt.This adds even more stress to an already stressful situation. After all: Christine planned to help Audrey raise her baby, to allow her to return to school and get the degree she so desperately wants.As Christine, Audrey, Lola, and Zach wade the waters of this new, delicate family plan, and grapple with the fears surrounding a very sick baby, they find new strength together.There's nothing like spring on the Vineyard to bring them together. There's something magical about that gorgeous sun over the Vineyard Sound. Something that assures them that, just...

The island of Martha's Vineyard bubbles with anticipation— summer approaches, as does the first Sheridan wedding in decades.Susan Sheridan left her life in Newark almost a year ago. Since then, Susan, Christine, Lola, Audrey, and Amanda have lived out every life milestone under the sun— from divorce to new loves, illnesses, to second-chance romances, and beyond.Now, after a year of cancer and healing, it's time for Susan Sheridan to have her happily-ever-after with her high school sweetheart, Scott. There is so much to be done before the huge event—but Susan Sheridan is good at staying busy. And when a woman gets into a bit of trouble on the island and needs Susan's legal assistance, Susan can't help but step in and take charge. This is just her way.And a criminal trial on the island is set to keep Susan and the rest of the Sheridan clan on their toes. It is set to be another spring and summer of unforgettable memories.Dive into...

Bar Harbor Summer Nights sizzle with jazz music, late-night dance parties on the beaches of Maine, and a belief that new chapters begin whenever you say they do. It's a summer Angie and the rest of the Harvey Sisters won't forget.Angie's life has revolved around one thing and one thing only: music. As a new Bar Harbor resident, it's up to her to cultivate a jazz group that rivals the one she left back home in Chicago — on that fills her heart and soul with music. Lucky for Angie, Bar Harbor has several skilled musicians, including a handsome stranger that leaves her captivated.Meanwhile, Nicole's daughter, Abby, strikes up a beautiful friendship with Angie's daughter, Hannah. Hannah is on the brink of motherhood, far away from anyone and anything she's ever known, with limited funds to give her baby a good and healthy life. Together, Abby and Hannah become a strong and powerful force, joining together to forge a business that will set Hannah and her baby up...

An injured army veteran. A near-fatal car accident. And a snow-capped Martha's Vineyard Christmas -- the kind that can mend any broken family.Andrew Montgomery is the black sheep of the Montgomery family.Seventeen years ago, Andy and his best friend, Kurt, took off for the army and planned to never look back. Once overseas, they realized the depths of their mistake. But once Kurt died in combat, Andy decided to turn his back on his past for good.Years later, Andrew is bound to the US again with an injury. A phone call a few weeks before Christmas changes everything and beckons him home.His father, Trevor Montgomery, has been involved in a horrible car accident. He might not make it.When Andrew returns to the island, he finds himself in the center of so many ghosts. His siblings are all in their late-thirties and forties. Their children have grown up, some of them with children of their own. Andrew has missed so much, and he also realizes just how alone he's been over the years.  They still call him "Andy," but they no longer see their baby brother. They see an injured vet.And worse than that, Kurt's sister and Andrew's high school love, has lived so much of her life alone while raising a child with autism. Just one look in her eyes reminds Andrew of all the passion he once had for her. It isn't gone.As days pass, Andrew finds himself falling deeper into a world he once abandoned. He realizes just how much his siblings have needed him over the year -- especially when it comes to Kelli's verbally abusive husband and Charlotte's husband's death.As they count down the days before Christmas, Andrew falls for the life he once hated. He learns to fight for his family members. And he searches for the right words to say to a father that he very nearly lost.Can he find a way to mend his family, just as his cousins, the Sheridan sisters, have managed? Can he find love, even after so many years of darkness and pain?Join the Montgomery and Sheridan family over a snow-capped, heartfelt, and emotional December on Martha's Vineyard.

A Martha's Vineyard widow hasn't known happiness in a long, long time. Death has surrounded her. And hope has long-since left the building. What happens next is beyond her wildest dreams.Elsa Remington Steel pledged to love one man, for the rest of her life. Aiden was a bright light, a wild personality, a beautiful soul — her husband and the father of her three wonderful children.Two years before, when they learned of his diagnosis, Elsa felt his death coming like a storm.After all, her brother had died at age ten, her mother had died when she was sixteen, and her father's health was on the decline. In Elsa's eyes, her world quickly fell apart. It was just expected.Now, her father is dead, her husband has been gone for over a year — but Elsa finds herself in the midst of beautiful renewal. She's just met her stepsister, Janine, who's pushed them to re-open the Katama Bay Wellness Lodge and Retreat Center, and Elsa has rediscovered love...

Elise's life as she knows it is over. Her husband of twenty years had an affair; her children have left the nest; and she hasn't managed to sell a screenplay in almost ten years. Now, one of the people she loved most in the world—her mother—is dead."Heartbroken" doesn't even cover it. She's never been more lost in her life.Elise and her mother had always lived in Los Angeles. Her mother was an actress and a single mother, who never revealed who Elise's father was.Now, Elise finds a secret diary within her mother's things—one that reveals a portion of her mother's life that Elise never knew about.In the late '70s, her mother worked as the personal assistant to acclaimed actress, Jane Seymour. And during this time, she journeyed to the glorious Michigan-based Mackinac Island, for the film, Somewhere in Time.While there, Elise's mother met a man who changed her life forever. He must be Elise's father. And Elise...

A sailing adventuress embarks on a gorgeous journey through the Caribbean. When tragedy strikes, she finds an unlikely home at the Katama Lodge on Martha's Vineyard.Elsa's eldest, Cole Steel, is on the brink of the rest of his life. Like his father before him, he's a remarkable sailor— but unlike his father, he has no wife, no children, and just the open ocean at his feet.Elsa's not entirely pleased with his reckless nature. But she knows he has the same adventurous spirit his father always had. Aiden lives through Cole, every day.Recently, Cole signed a contract to sail professionally. It's the opportunity of a lifetime— with a caveat. His boss is widely known as the toughest in the business. Other sailors who've worked beneath her have fled home, saying they can't take the heat.That boss? Her name is Whitney Silverton. She's known nothing but sailing since she was a smart-aleck little kid, growing up on her father's docks in the Florida...

Two gorgeous weddings. A monstrous accident that destroys the world they once knew. A betrayal, countless changes, and fear of the unknown.The five Sisters of Edgartown join together for another — yet very different — Christmas on the cozy island of Martha's Vineyard. Times have changed. Romance, heartache, second chances, hurricanes, move-ins, break-ups — they've followed the Sisters of Edgartown around the previous year and led them to the holiday season yet again. To encounter all these changes, the five Sisters of Edgartown plan to meet for a round of gossip and non-stop Black Friday shopping. But one of their own is late, then later, then later than late — Until the four other Sisters of Edgartown receive a phone call that rocks them to their core. Hospitals. Wheelchairs. Heart-wrenching cries.The Sisters of Edgartown are only forty-one going on forty-two. They've already lost a member of their group at the age of...

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 of her normal staff off the island for the winter, Charlotte must task her cousins, the Sheridan sisters, as well as her sister, Claire, for help to throw this unforgettable wedding.And somewhere between Thursday's Thanksgiving dinner and the cake-cutting Saturday night, she just might find a love to call her own.Dive into this new women's fiction series by heading to Martha's Vineyard— a backdrop of white sand and crystal blue waters that follow the stories of the Sheridan family. A heartwarming journey of friendship, loss, and love that will have you wanting the next book.For fans of Pamela Kelley, Caroline Brown, Debbie Macomber, and Jan Moran.

A mysterious woman comes to Mackinac Island with secrets of her own— and seeks refuge in the love and kindness of the Swartz Family. But can they trust her?Alex Swartz has always been the black sheep of the family. For years, he's kept to himself, operating the bed and breakfasts across Mackinac Island, and never daring to dream of happiness, love, or family of his own. All that changes one late night at the Willow Bed and Breakfast, when the beautiful and secretive Lily arrives with two young boys. Over the next few weeks, Alex finds himself falling in love with Lily and caring for her children. Finally, he's needed. His heart grows twice its size.Unfortunately, Lily isn't truthful about who she really is.Meanwhile, Emma Swartz is very pregnant with her first child. When her water breaks too early, her plans to have the baby off the island are thwarted. Alex's new friend, Lily, is a midwife, and Lily soon steps in to save the day. For a little while,...

A dream wedding with an unexpected twist takes Susan Sheridan and Amanda on a wild rollercoaster of emotions - one that brings them closer than ever as mother and daughter.If there's anything Susan Sheridan understands, it's that things don't always go as planned.From her divorce, to her move from Newark, to her cancer diagnosis, finally to Scott popping the question at the Sunrise Cove Inn's New Year's Party in front of all her closest family and friends.She never thought she'd find her way back to a love like this.Amanda prepares herself for the ride of her life as she plans a dream-wedding to Chris, a man she's loved desperately for years.But there's something off about him. Something that rears its ugly head as the January wedding date rolls near. Something that proves to Amanda what her mother has already learned— things don't always go as planned.Add to this turbulent world-win of the Sheridan clan: Lola falls deeper in love with her boyfriend, Tommy; Audrey, as she continues to grapple with her pregnancy at the age of nineteen; and Christine, as she prepares to take on the responsibility of motherhood, in a way she never imagined.Beyond this, their father dips evermore toward darkness as his dementia worsens. It's a cloud over everything, even as their love for him grows.  Can the Sheridan clan survive this rollercoaster ride?Join Amanda, Susan, Lola, Christine, and Audrey as they move forward in life, in love, in family, and in friendship. Nothing is ever as it seems or as they planned. But maybe that's never a bad thing. It's just how time goes on the Vineyard.Dive into this new women's fiction series by heading to Martha's Vineyard— a backdrop of white sand and crystal blue waters that follow the stories of the Sheridan family. A heartwarming journey of friendship, loss, and love that will have you wanting the next book.For fans of Pamela Kelley, Caroline Brown, Debbie Macomber, and Jan Moran.

Anna's miracle baby is on his way, and Julia's wedding is fast-approaching. Prepare for another season of upheaval and beautiful blessings at The Copperfield House.Last April, Anna's fiancé passed away in a horrible accident on Orcas Island. Anna learned she was pregnant weeks later — and prepared herself for the devastating realities of being a single mother. At least she has the other Copperfield women on her side.Now, Anna's fiancé's mother, Violet, is on her way to The Copperfield House to welcome her grandson. Anna wants to build a beautiful connection with her — but from the moment Violet arrives, the Copperfields sense there's something not quite right. Violet is keeping secrets. And she's utterly controlling.Meanwhile, Julia takes on another client for her publishing house — a mysterious young man who comes to Nantucket to finish a memoir about his difficult upbringing and his sinister mother. As the young man fights...

It's a time for gratitute and forgiveness. Hope for a brighter tomorrow, in the wake of tragedy. It's the Katama Bay Wellness Spa way.Six months ago, Janine Grimson learned her best friend had an affair with her husband of twenty years — at the engagement party of their oldest daughter, Maggie.In the wake of that horrific event, Janine rekindled her relationship with her mother, Nancy, moved full-time to Martha's Vineyard, and found herself stronger, better, and brighter than ever before.Now, news from Manhattan shakes her to the core.Something tragic has happened to her ex-husband, Jack Potter — the only man she's ever truly loved — just two weeks before Thanksgiving.The tragedy tears a hole through Janine's heart, especially as she watches her daughters deal with the pain. They never asked for any of this and now Janine is left to pick up the pieces.But what's more: Jack's tragedy results in a terribly lonely woman...