Henry Carter Hull

Ann Lord, ill, and only vaguely conscious of what is going on around her, travels back in her mind to the memory of a summer weekend forty years earlier when she fell in love.

The Sparrow family's women have unusual gifts. Elinor can detect falsehood. Her daughter, Jenny, can see people's dreams when they sleep. And granddaughter Stella has a mental window to the future -- but her clairvoyance may bring her clan ruin.

Anne Davis has returned to the house where she grew up, trading her glamorous Manhattan lifestyle for a harsh winter on a wind-whipped New England island. Her marriage has crumbled in the wake of a tragic accident. Now she has returned to the home on Salt Whistle Raod that has always meant shelter, security, family, and love. When she awakens one snowy night to a fire that roars through the old house, Anne escapes-but runs back into the blaze to save...

Suspended New York policewoman Ginny Lavoie returns to her small hometown in New England to help discover who murdered her childhood best friend's teenage son, and must deal not only with attempts on her life, but the past she tried so hard to leave behind.

Talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, with whom she spends seven difficult but rewarding years growing up.

The Maxwells and the Popes, best friends for years, face a multidimensional crisis when thirteen-year-old Michael Maxwell surprises his mother, Teke, in bed with Sam Pope, and runs into the street where he is struck by a truck driven by Teke's childhood boyfriend, Grady.