In 1943, a powerful hurricane ripped across Martha's Vineyard and destroyed the Historic Cliffside Hotel. Now, a broken, long-time realtor who has lived on the island her entire life sells the old acreage and building to a passionate developer — and finds healing, love, and light along the way.Kelli Montgomery spent the previous twenty years in a loveless and abusive marriage. Last Christmas, after her brother, Andy, arrived home after decades away, she finally found the strength to leave her husband — but as anyone who's ever been through such trauma knows, what happens next — the healing process, the rebirth which is the hardest, and most grueling part of healing.Years ago, Kelli and her ex took over her parents' prosperous real estate business. Now that Mike has officially left the island, the work has fallen on Kelli's shoulders. Naturally, she is struggling — even as the rest of the Montgomery and Sheridan families do their best to...

A chance encounter between two lost souls at The Copperfield House flourishes into a remarkable journey of healing and truth-telling— all on the gorgeous island of Nantucket.Novelist Layla Johnson has writer's block. When Greta Copperfield invites her to The Copperfield House to teach a three-month writing seminar, she jumps at the chance, hoping it will ignite her creativity.Samuel Garreth has spent the previous twelve years in prison. His wife and children abandoned him, and he has nothing left— except for his friend from behind bars, Bernard Copperfield. Bernard invites him to stay at The Copperfield House until he gets on his feet— where he meets the remarkable Layla, whose books kept him company in prison.As Layla and Samuel circle one another, secrets from their past come to the surface and demand far more of them than most budding romances.Can Layla and Samuel make peace with the trauma of their past, come clean about what...

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...

A marriage between two lost souls who finally come together after decades as "just friends." A mysterious little girl with a secret past. And a struggle with IVF that continues to demand courage and inner strength.It's finally time for Carmella to marry the love of her life — her best friend turned boyfriend turned fiancé, Cody. As she grapples with her new role as stepmother to Gretchen, she learns some surprising news about her own situation — and finds herself rewriting a future she'd once thought would be aimless and incredibly lonely.Alyssa has only loved one person in her life — her high school boyfriend, Hunter, who she broke up with over four and a half years ago. His surprise appearance at a loft party in Brooklyn ignites Alyssa's soul all over again, but the joy is short-lived. Rather soon, Alyssa learns that Hunter is in the depths of a depressive spell and must go to rehab. As she attempts to help him, she...

Nancy Grimson Remington has spent the previous twenty years running from her past. Now, it's caught up to her and she must face the truth.Ten years ago, Nancy Grimson met the handsome and successful Neal Remington in Bangkok, Thailand. It was a whirlwind romance, one that found her back on Martha's Vineyard, Neal's home, to become a stepmom to Elsa and Carmella and help Neal with the Katama Lodge and Wellness Spa.Earlier this year, Neal passed away, and earlier this summer, her estranged daughter, Janine, came back into her life after heartache of her own. It's been a whirlwind of changes and Nancy continues to reel with pain and sorrow, even alongside her gratefulness.But summer is over. And with the end of summer, Nancy finds herself facing elements of her past that she thought she'd outrun.Meanwhile, autumn on Martha's Vineyard is glorious and blue-skied. Janine's daughter and Nancy's granddaughter, Maggie, marries the love of her life, and...

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...

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 maybe, everything will be okay, as long as they're there for each other.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. 

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...

Maggie and Alyssa have an unbreakable sisterly bond. But when a chance encounter with an older woman named Heidi pushes them to take a huge emotional risk — they're forced to ask themselves questions about the strength of their love and what they're willing to do to keep it alive.In New York City, life is not what it once was. Maggie's husband is cruel and manipulative, but when Alyssa demands answers, Maggie brushes it off. Now that the IVF treatments have worked and Maggie is pregnant, Maggie hardly notices the troubles in her marriage. Alyssa decides to step back and be happy for her sister, no matter what.But when Maggie suffers another miscarriage, Alyssa's heart breaks for her. All Maggie has ever wanted is to be a mother. This was her last chance.The Dog-Eared Corner is a gem of a bookstore in Martha's Vineyard. Heidi Withers' father opened it when she was just a girl and passed it on to her when he died, and it's been her pride and joy ever...

A Manhattan socialite who loses everything. The mother she's resented for over twenty years. A return to Martha's Vineyard, where healing can finally begin.Janine Potter grew up on the other side of the tracks. Her mother, Nancy, struggled with just about everything: alcohol, men, money — and Janine made a pledge to herself that she would never be like her.At age nineteen, Janine met Jack Potter, the son of an oil tycoon, and never looked back. Her life became a series of cocktail parties and multi-million-dollar apartments all across the world and rubbing elbows with celebrities. Slowly, memory of her mother faded — although the trauma never really did.Fast-forward to the present. Janine is forty-three, with two beautiful daughters, a perfect apartment, a handsome husband who betrays her beyond her wildest dreams.Soon, Janine is cast out from her picture-perfect life. She has nothing.Her mother, Nancy, who's gone through trials...

Eighty years after a powerful hurricane destroyed it, the Aquinnah Cliffside Overlook Hotel opens its doors for a beautiful Sheridan wedding. But everything is about to go horribly wrong.Kelli Montgomery is happier than she's ever been. Together with her fiancé, she opens the luxurious Aquinnah Cliffside just in time for Amanda Harris' wedding — but soon finds herself up to her ears in chaos.It's been two and a half years since Amanda was left at the altar. Now, she's ready to try again with Sam, the manager of the Sunrise Cove Inn. But minutes before the wedding, Sam goes missing — and Amanda and Kelli are forced to stare down their inner demons to get to the root of what's really going on at the Aquinnah Cliffside Overlook Hotel.Will Amanda get her happily ever after? And can the Aquinnah Cliffside Overlook Hotel stay open, even after such a dramatic start?Dive into the sixteenth book of the Vineyard Sunset Series, where a...

The Copperfield Family celebrates the holidays for the first time in twenty-five years — but secrets from the past continue to haunt them.Christmas was always Greta Copperfield's favorite time of year. Memories from that first Christmas with Bernard in Paris are some of her favorite — times before marriage, before children, and even before The Copperfield House, when the love she had for Bernard was the only thing she really understood.But all that was so long ago. Now, as the world comes to terms with the fact that Bernard Copperfield spent twenty-five years in prison for crimes that he did not commit, Greta stirs with confusion about her own past and future, yet still welcomes back the entirety of The Copperfield Family for a holiday season none of them will ever forget.Can she and Bernard find a way to love one another again, even after so much time apart?And can her children truly find a way to heal after so many years of...

BOLD: After a season of loss, the Montgomery Family opens their hearts to a springtime of change.Last autumn, Laura's death shocked the Montgomery Family to the core.Laura's daughter, Isabella, is crippled with sorrow and turns to Laura's diaries for comfort. What she finds there— a dramatic story that unfolds between the autumn of 1995 and spring of 1996, intrigues her. Laura never mentioned her old employer, Franklin Butler, nor the fact that, when Laura learned of his criminal activity, he threatened her to be silent. Why did Laura never mention any of this?Meanwhile, Laura's husband, Steve, has just re-opened his auto repair shop with the hope that a bit of hard work will distract him from his broken heart. In truth, he can't get over how unfair it all is. Laura was his life— she was his love. She deserved to live as long as he did, so they could watch their grandchildren grow up together.The island of Martha's Vineyard soon finds...

A Chicago jazz pianist on the brink of enormous change. A Bar Harbor Sous Chef who risks it all for love. And one fateful night over forty years ago that united them forever. Angela Montague celebrates New Year's Eve as she always has: performing in the jazz ensemble that she started with her husband, Felix, twenty years ago. An hour into the new year, she learns the devastating truth of her husband's affair with another member of the jazz group. In one fell swoop, she loses her husband and her music career. And it's only January 1st.Two other factors make an already messy year much worse. First, her twenty-year-old daughter, Hannah, has refused to speak to Angie in six months. And secondly, old documents in her deceased father's office indicate that the childhood she spent in Cincinnati wasn't all it seemed to be.Secrets sizzle through Angie's past, forcing her to face the shattered wreckage of her and her daughter's relationship,...