Henry Carter Hull

After Carley Winsted loses her husband to a fatal heart attack, she devises a plan to keep her family in their beloved Nantucket home by transforming the historic house into a bed-and-breakfast, but while Carley struggles to keep a friend's secret and prevent families and friendships from unraveling, a summer heat wave brings about unexpected changes that will alter the lives of Carley and everyone she loves forever.

The Walker clan, Vivi and Big Shep; their children Sidda, Little Shep, Lulu, and Baylor; Vivi's long-time girlfriends the Ya-Yas; and neighbors Cheney and Willetta, live out their lives in flamboyant and secretive style in the bayou of Thorton, Louisiana.

Catherine Anderson and Clay Forrester come from two different worlds, but when one blind date leaves them forever linked, they agree to a marriage of convenience, which suits them both, until they begin to fall in love.

Presents two novellas by Phillip Lopate, "The Stoic's Marriage," in which a young man falls in love with the nurse sent to care for his dying mother, and "Eleanor, or, The Second Marriage," recounting the story of a couple whose perfect romantic weekend is disrupted by the unexpected arrival of the man's son.

Television producer Brin Cassidy's estranged husband, Jon Riley, interrupts a party she has thrown for a network executive who could provide her big break in the business, demands to know why Brin left him, and refuses to leave until she reveals her secret.

After the death of her husband, Anna Winterbourne travels to Egypt, where she falls in love with Sharif Pasha al-Baoudi, an Egyptian nationalist.

Charlotte Dawes, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a distinguished New England couple, has her innocence stripped from her by a violent act, and the family's decision to hide what happened marks the beginning of a cover-up that changes the lives of everyone involved.

Feeling unattractive and unappreciated as she enters her fifties, wife and mother Clover wakes up one morning and discovers that she has actually become invisible, a condition that goes unnoticed by her family.

Sarah McClure, unable to secure a job after she and her husband move to the small town of Waterford, Pennsylvania, learns some lessons about life, love, and family when she reluctantly takes a temporary position helping the elderly, cantankerous Sylvia Compson prepare her family estate for sale.

Caroline Wimbley Levine never expected to assume the role of her late mother, a force of nature who ruled Tall Pines Plantation in South Carolina's Lowcountry, but with her son taking up with an older single mom, her sister-in-law indulging in alcoholic binges, her brother in love with another woman, and her nieces behaving like heathens, she knows someone has to take control.