Draws on the true stories of the author's grandmother to continue the tale of turn-of-the-twentieth-century pioneer Sarah, whose efforts to survive in the Arizona Territory are challenged by drought before a stagecoach accident puts her in the path of three strangers.

Four high school friends spend a summer in northern California to sort out their love lives. Cassie, unlucky in love, falls for a biker. Julie, who married her high school sweetheart too young, wonders if the spark is gone from her marriage. Marty feels trapped in a loveless marriage and is contemplating an affair. Beth, a successful doctor, struggles with health problems and her attraction to a coworker. This summer, teetering on the threshold of...

"DIANE CHAMBERLAIN is the international bestselling author of twenty-three novels. She lives in North Carolina with her partner, photographer John Pagliuca, and her shelties, Keeper and Cole."-- "From bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel. When Caroline Sears receives the news that her unborn baby girl has a heart defect, she is devastated. It is 1970 and there seems to be little that can be done. But her brother-in-law,...

When award-winning film maker Justine Nolan returns to her beautiful childhood home, she is intrigued by an envelope she finds in her absent mother's post, but the letter inside contains a shocking revelation, which will change everything she believes about her family's recent history, her mother and her adored grandmother, Gabriele, if it turns out to be true.

North Archer, Andie Miller's ex-husband, asks her to become the guardian of two orphans who have driven out three nannies already--and live in a haunted house! What follows is a hilarious adventure in exorcism, including a self-doubting parapsychologist, an annoyed medium, her Tarot-card reading mother, an avenging ex-mother-in-law, and, of course, her jealous fianc?e. And just when Andie thinks things couldn't get more complicated, North shows up...

Annie Ferguson was a bright young Manhattan architect. Talented, beautiful, just starting out with her first job, new apartment and boyfriend, she had the world in the palm of her hand, until a single phone call altered the course of her life forever. Overnight, she became the mother to her sister's three orphaned children, keeping a promise she never regretted making, even if it meant putting her own life indefinitely on hold.

Rose McKenna volunteers in her daughter Melly's school to keep an eye on Amanda, a mean girl who's been bullying her daughter. Her fears come true when the bullying begins, sending Melly to the bathroom in tears. Just as Rose is about to follow after her daughter, there is a massive explosion. Rose believes she has ushered Amanda to safety and rescued her daughter, only to discover that Amanda ran back into the school. Amanda's mother decides...

After a fight with her husband, Andrew, over a stray puppy, Dash decides to start her life over, packing up her things and the puppy and moving out, but finds that starting over is impossible until she can accept the ghosts of her past.

A group of friends tell each other stories over a wedding quilt being made for Sarah McMlure's daughter under the supervision of Master Quilter Sylvia Compson.

Susan Hayes retreats to her childhood home on Sullivan Island to begin the slow process of healing after a failed marriage, rebellious teenage daughter, and a mediocre job.