She thought she’d buried her old life. Then she turned the photograph over. Six months after her divorce, former investigative journalist Julia Mercer comes to Sand Dollar Cove to disappear, to drink her coffee on the sand at dawn, to stop being the woman who couldn’t let anything go. The little Cape Cod beach town […]

On the serene shores of Martha’s Vineyard, Lily has spent a year adrift in grief after the sudden loss of her husband, David. Her once-vibrant pottery studio is shuttered, her laughter silenced, and her days empty. But when her daughter Anna returns home with her lively twins, seeking refuge while her husband, Luke, is deployed […]

Three years after the death of their three-year-old daughter, Sophia and Beau LeBlanc are still standing. Their marriage is another matter. Sarah Jane is everywhere in their New Orleans home—in the bedroom they haven’t changed, the fingerprints Sophia can’t bring herself to wipe away, and the old iPad filled with photographs and videos of the […]

They spiked her drink. They stole her memory. They don’t get to keep her voice. Hannah Kollman has spent her life playing the perfect girl, high grades, no drama, and never speaking up when it matters most. It’s safer that way. Safer than ending up like her mom. But one night shatters everything. One drink […]

Jen Watson thought she had plenty of time. But when her father suddenly decides to sell their beloved Newport Beach house, the one filled with decades of memories, she’s forced to rally fast to save it. Good thing she’s not alone. Her two best friends, Carrie and Faith, are always up for a challenge. Carrie’s […]

Darlena, Belinda, and Carmen Jones, three African American sisters now in their mid-forties, grew up poor as tight, close-knit sisters in the Crenshaw area of Los Angeles. Each sister has grown up with a strong attraction to different shades of long-stem roses that has carried over well into their adult life. While Belinda and Carmen […]

How do you survive when the world you know is at war with itself? In the unyielding chaos of China’s Cultural Revolution, young Lianlian’s life is a constant battle against family violence, public shame, and brutal poverty. Raised by a resilient mother and anchored by her little sister, she learns to endure, but with a […]

Some loves survive everything, except the truth. On New Year’s Eve 2020, as political unrest erupts in Washington, D.C., seventy-year-old Fiona Goldberg confronts a reckoning far closer to home. When her husband, Reuben, a journalist covering the January 6 Insurrection, is injured, Fiona is left alone with the past she has spent decades trying to […]

Forty-two year old Jenny Beckett is dreading the holidays. Her fiancé has just called off their Christmas wedding, and she’s been evicted from her darling chicken coop cottage. When her estranged father dies and leaves her eight rustic guest cabins on Heron Lake, Jenny seizes the chance to make a new life. She packs up […]