Martha's Vineyard's summer season is in full-swing -- glittering sands and bright blue waves and sweet, summertime romances. Even after forty, there's so much time for love, for life, for taking big chances. Mila knows she can't live with regret. Not after everything that happened.Nearly two years ago, Mila lost her dear husband, Peter. He was twenty years her senior and the love of her life -- and in his absence, she's struggled to pick up the pieces. She never imagined life without him. Now, she lives it every day.Her best friends -- Camilla, Olivia, Jennifer, and Amelia -- are there for her as much as they can, as she struggles through the last years of single-motherhood for her twin children, Zane and Isabelle, who are both eighteen.Mila owns her own esthetician salon, which features a whole cast of wonderful characters that Mila loves to bits-- women who turn the wheels of gossip on the island of Martha's Vineyard, day after day.This summer is one of growth for Mila. She watches her twins graduate from high school and enter new stages of their lives -- and Mila finds herself overwhelmed with new opportunities, handsome strangers, and proof that her life isn't even close to being over. Not yet.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 Caroline Brown, Debbie Macomber, and Susan Mallory.

It's New Year's Eve in Bar Harbor — and the Harvey Sisters open their arms to another year of possibilities, heartache, and hope.Kim celebrates the holidays with the Harvey Sisters. At seventy years old, she's no less wild and adventurous than she was in her twenties. In her mind, she will never get old. Everything changes on a beautiful New Year's afternoon, when she gets on her snowmobile to ride home like always — but is run off the road and into a tree.Everything in Kim's world goes dark. For a full month, she's trapped in a coma.When Kim wakes up, she can't walk or talk. She is lost, afraid, and completely unlike her former self — and unsure if she will ever find herself again.Meanwhile, Heather's daughter, Kristine, moves to Bar Harbor after a particularly painful breakup and the loss of her business career. With nothing to do all day and nowhere to put her anxious mind, she seeks refuge in helping Kim around...

One bride prepares for the Mackinac wedding of her dreams, while another Mackinac bride mourns the wedding that never was. It's autumn on Mackinac Island — and love is never hard to come by, even if it's where you least expect it to be.Elise has had two of the most topsy-turvy years of her life. Now, she's weeks away from marrying Wayne, her second chance at love after her ex's affair.As Elise, Penny, Cindy, Tracey, Emma, and Megan prepare for the big wedding, they stumble into familiar Mackinac Island characters, including the whip-smart owner of The Pink Pony Bar and Grill, Marcy.Marcy has always been a fixture on the island. With her father now in a nursing home full-time, Marcy owns and operates the bar mostly by herself, keeping an eye on the many islanders who come by for drinks and good conversation. Marcy knows the ins-and-outs of all the Mackinac Island gossip — but is generally grateful to stay out of it.In fact, Marcy has had a...

A joyous wedding. A surprise move to the city. Doubts, secrets, and fears during a Nantucket Solstice that the Copperfield Family will never forget.Sometimes change is a good thing. Sometimes it's not.Greta receives a surprise letter from a long-lost friend. What begins as a joyous reunion ends in her dear friend's death — and endless confusion for Greta. What was her friend up to the past two decades? Why is she such a mystery? And what does it all have to do with Greta and her "lost years" at The Copperfield House?Greta is consumed with questions. She sets out on a journey to learn more.Meanwhile Alana prepares to marry the love of her life in a cozy ceremony at The Copperfield House. But her soon-to-be stepdaughter Sarah is off for the chance of a lifetime to act in an off-Broadway play in Manhattan. Alana soon finds her wrapped up in a world she abandoned years ago — and questioning if she gave up on...

Amelia Taylor gave everything to her career. At forty-one, it's too late for love, for laughter, for children. At least, that's what she thinks.Amelia finds herself in the midst of chaos. Throughout the previous two decades, everyone from her family to her dearest friends has put complete trust in her. If anyone can do it, Amelia can. She's the perfect godmother (or, more like stand-in mother) to her niece and nephew; she's the perfect employee for Martha's Vineyard's business bureau; and she'll do anything for her sisters.But the second she loosens up and gives in to the allure of a one-night stand — everything changes her life forever.And as though the cosmos themselves have a different story up their sleeves, her niece, Mandy, gets some surprising news of her own.But blessings come in strange packages. Amelia and the other Sisters of Edgartown know this better than most. As they grapple with divorce, new loves, constant changes, deaths, and...

Elise's time on Mackinac Island has only just begun.What started as a brief trek to that gorgeous Michigan island has forced Elise into a wild arena of family secrets, broken promises, and now—to her surprise—disaster.The handsome stranger who works at the coffee shop soon proves to be her only friend as she digs in her heels, determined to meet her father and make peace with the family she never knew she had.Dive in for a trek of a lifetime: from the glittering sands of Los Angeles, all the way to that gem of an island between the southern and northern peninsulas of Michigan, Mackinac Island, where secrets have been kept for the previous forty years.

A secret room beneath the Sunrise Cove Inn unlocks a history far more dramatic than the Sheridans could have ever imagined.Amanda and Sam welcome their gorgeous baby girl the same week a construction crew discovers a sealed-up room in the basement of the Sunrise Cove. Historians must be called to ensure everything is handled the right way.And then the Sheridans receive a blow: the Sunrise Cove must close for now.But Amanda knows there's something fishy going on. A few months back she handled the case of a horrible client who was guilty of his crimes. She was able to talk down his prison sentence dramatically — but his very rich and powerful parents are out for revenge. She thinks they're using this historical room as leverage to close the inn and destroy the Sheridan family. But she won't give up without a fight.But what's really in that room unshackles long-held Sheridan Family secrets from nearly two hundred years ago. And...

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...

It's another sundrenched summer on Martha's Vineyard. Between long, glorious beach days with her best friends, sailboat rides, and shifts at the hospital, Camilla must face the truth of her failed marriage and prepare to mend her broken heart.And it won't be easy.The previous six months have been nothing short of heartwrenching. Camilla's husband, Jonathon, left her around Christmastime. With Camilla's daughter, Andrea, off in New York for fashion school and in the midst of planning her wedding, Camilla has felt miserable and alone — despite support from her best friends, Mila, Jennifer, Olivia, and Amelia.It's time for new growth, to push herself, to go on dates, to recover. But it's much easier to want those things than to make them happen.Soon, Camilla discovers some secrets her once-dear husband didn't want her to know — and she's forced down a rabbit hole, one that makes her delve deep into feelings of love and regret.Are...

Gorgeous sunsets. Crisp lake waters. Crackling bonfires. It's summer on Mackinac Island.For Tracey, these particular summer nights just might change her life forever. If she'll let them.Tracey Swartz is a lot of things— fashionable, spontaneous, quick with a joke, and easy to laugh. No, she hasn't had an easy life. But who has?But it's finally time for Tracey's big break. Elise's new screenplay is set to start filming on Mackinac Island that summer, and Elise has arranged for Tracey to work in costuming on-set. Tracey is both terrified and thrilled to be a part of "movie magic."But as Tracey prepares for her role, a chance encounter with a man from her past leaves her reeling. Suddenly, she finds herself lost in an emotional correspondence with her daughter's long-lost father— a man she thought she'd never hear from again.Chaos ensues as Tracey and her ex-lover become closer than they ever should have been.On top of it all,...

It's time for the Nantucket Jubilee— an iconic celebration that calls back the most secretive of the Copperfield children, Ella.Twenty-five years ago, Quentin, Julia, and Alana fled The Copperfield House, leaving Greta and Ella alone— feeling completely abandoned.But it wasn't the first time.Abandonment, as it turns out, has been the theme of Ella's life. And she doesn't even know it, yet.After graduation from Nantucket High, Ella ran off to New York City and joined an indie rock band. There, she met the heartbreakingly handsome guitarist, Will Ashton.It didn't surprise her that she fell head-over-heels for Will, but what did surprise her was all the rest: that their love and their rock band flourished. That soon, they were named one of the "top indie bands to watch out for." And later, that she and Will had two perfect children, Laura and Danny.It's been over twenty-five years since her father was sent to...

The Remington Sisters and Janine and Nancy Grimson unite for a final month of Martha's Vineyard summertime splendor as they fight to heal the broken women of Katama Lodge and Wellness Spa — and one another.As a child, Carmella Remington was boisterous, alive — always one to move too fast, laugh too long, feel too deeply. She was the middle child of Neal Remington, the fraught one between Elsa and Colton. Until one day, Carmella made one of the biggest mistakes of her life — a mistake so wretched that it cost Colton's life.In the wake of this, Carmella's entire life changed forever. Her mother could no longer look her in the eye, resulting in even more trauma for Carmella, especially when her mother died a few years later. Carmella built up thick walls and allowed only one woman: her stepmother, Karen, to penetrate them. Soon after, Elsa and Neal seemed to conspire against Carmella, which resulted in Neal divorcing Karen.Carmella was alone,...

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...

Christine Sheridan is the middle sister of the Sheridan clan: lost between her older sister, Susan, a successful criminal lawyer and her whip-smart little sister, Lola. Over twenty years apart, she and her sisters have just learned the secret that their dead mother has kept from them all these years, of their mother's true fate. Now, Christine returns to New York City, to her boyfriend Frank, to a life she once loved. But the prestige's restaurant they own is no more, and Christine is left once again without solid ground. At forty-one, unable to have children, and with nowhere to go—she knows only to return home to the Vineyard and her family. Martha's Vineyard is in full summer bloom. After over twenty years away, Christine falls in love again with the water, with boating, the people, and with carefree days that meander and pop with bright conversations with Lola and Susan and long afternoon swims through crystal waters. Unfortunately, her high...

The Harvey Sisters celebrate their first Christmas in Bar Harbor. Love, joy, and companionship await after a year of heartache and mystery— and the eldest sister, Casey Harvey Griffin, is unprepared for what the holiday has in store for her.Casey has always been the hot-headed sister— the passionate one, the go-getter, the one who took the lead when everything else fell apart. She was there when Nicole's life exploded and there when Heather lost everything. She's always been there to carry the weight of other people's problems. Her own problems? She's shoved those under the carpet, saying, as always, "Everything is fine." It's always been her way.In truth, Casey's marriage has disintegrated year-after-year, as Grant took projects further and further away from his family and abandoned what they built. Casey's career took a hiatus when her hot-headedness caused a horrible fight at her architecture firm in Portland. For a long time, she had absolutely...