On a foggy summer night, eleven people, ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter, depart Martha's Vineyard on a private jet headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors are Scott Burroughs, the painter, and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of an immensely wealthy and powerful media mogul's family. With chapters weaving between the aftermath of...

Coming of age on Martha's Vineyard, Collie, struggles to find his place wihtin his wildly wealthy, hyperarticulate, resolutely crazy Irish-Catholic family: a philandering father, incorrigible brother, pigeon-racing unlce, radical activist mother, and

Old grudges and family infighting are brought to light when former policeman J.W. Jackson is hired to investigate the murder of Ollie Mattes, a night watchman who was guarding a Chappaquiddick mansion, the subsequent killing of Harold Hobbes, the main suspect in Mattes's death, and an unknown avenger dedicated to destroying audio equipment.

From Dorothy West, the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance, The Wedding is an intimate glimpse into African American middle class. Set on bucolic Martha's Vineyard in the 1950s, this is the story of life in the Oval, a proud, insular community made up of the best and brightest of the East Coast's black bourgeoisie. Within this inner circle of "blue-vein society," we witness the prominent Coles family gather for the wedding of the loveliest...

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...

"Ranjit Singh, a former Indian Army Captain trying to escape a shameful past, lives with his family among the migrant workers of Martha's Vineyard, working as a caretaker of the vacation homes of the rich and powerful. Needing a place to stay, Ranjit moves his family into an empty Senator's home. Happily, but illegally ensconced in the house, he tries to forget his brief affair with Anna, the wife of an African-American senator, and focus on providing...

Waverly Brennan gives up her job at the Art Institute of Chicago to move to Martha's Vineyard where her mother has purchased what Waverly believed to be an art gallery, but she decides to make the best of things--at least for the summer--when she discovers the business is a video arcade, and there are other reasons why she might want to stay, including Blake Erikson and his young daughter.

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.

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...