This author sets her novels in the scenic Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts, exploring the complexities of family, marriage, and small-town American life. Her work delves into the intricate dynamics of human connection, offering poignant observations on relationships and community. With a distinctive voice, she crafts narratives that resonate with readers, examining the enduring themes of love and belonging. Her storytelling invites contemplation on the nature of intimacy and the search for place in the modern world.
Struggling to rebuild her life after her husband's disappearance and theft, Alice Hyatt relocates to her family's summer home in western Massachusetts. Embracing her career as a landscape architect, she reconnects with friends and finds fulfillment. However, her professional journey takes a turn when wealthy newcomer Graham Mackenzie commissions her for a garden design, despite her concerns about his fracking business. As Alice navigates this complex relationship, she risks her newfound success and safety, becoming entangled in a web of crime once more.
From an award-winning young adult author comes a touching women’s fiction debut featuring three sisters who discover that coming home for the holidays isn’t as easy as it seems…Sometimes coming home for the holidays isn’t as easy as it seems….It’s December 21, and the Yancey sisters have been called home. When the girls were young, holidays at their family farm meant a tinsel-garnished tree, the scent of simmering food, and laughter ringing through the house. But as the years unfolded, family bonds fractured, and the three sisters scattered and settled into separate lives. Until now. The Yancey sisters are coming to spend the holidays with their mother. They’re also coming to bury their father.Claire, the youngest, a free spirit who journeyed to California, returns first. Then comes Julia, the eldest, a college professor with a teenage son of her own. And finally there’s Maya, the middle child, who works so hard to be the perfect mother and wife. During the sisters’ week together, old conflicts surface, new secrets emerge, and the limits and definitions of family are tested. And as the longest night of the year slips by and brightening days beckon, the sisters will have to answer one question: When you’re a sister, aren’t you a sister forever?
The narrative explores the unraveling of a seemingly perfect life when a scandal involving their son and a neighborhood teenager threatens the Bostock family's reputation. As national attention focuses on the allegations against Brook and her husband, Michael, their small Massachusetts town reveals hidden resentments and jealousies. Faced with the potential collapse of their family, Brook and Michael must confront the secrets that could destroy everything they hold dear, testing their bond and resilience in the process.
Set against the backdrop of a devastating loss, this poignant novel explores the unraveling marriage of Cal and Jenny Horigan. As they grapple with guilt and remorse, their once-solid bond begins to fray, leading them to drift apart and struggle to reconnect. The story delves into themes of love, loss, and the challenges of navigating grief while seeking redemption and understanding in their relationship.
Yearning for more than her small town can offer, Maddie Alden finds her dream coming true when she takes a lucrative job in real estate promoting the area to wealthy New Yorkers, including her glamorous new friend, Anne, who shakes up Maddie's marriage and forces her to confront a painful secret about the past. Original.
