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Returning home for a family reunion, Laura Bartone and her brother, Steve, are stunned by their sister’s allegations of shocking behavior on the part of their mother, and must come to terms with the truth and lies within their family.

After a decade of spending a delightful summer week at their country house in New Hampshire, the members of the extended Seton family are confronted by a terrible accident, testing the values and relationships that hold them together.

Working at a homeless shelter, student Laurel Estabrook encounters Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history of mental illness and a box of secret photos, but when Bobbie dies suddenly, Laurel embarks on an obsessive search for the truth behind the photos.

A novel of family, faith, and hope follows Martha Cade, a midwife in a small Pennsylvania town called Trinity, whose existence is shattered by the mysterious departure of her daughter.

Still haunted by the murder of her sister seventeen years earlier, Julie Bauer must confront the pain of the past when a mysterious phone call sheds new light on the events of that terrifying night, exposing a dark family secret that could destroy them all.

Dana Clarke has finally achieved the stability she has craved in her marriage to a man from an old New England family, but when her daughter is born with African-American traits in her appearance, her family life is thrown into turmoil.

Determined to begin life anew in Verity, Florida, with her son, Keith, transplanted New Yorker Lucy Rosen finds everything she ever hoped for and everything she ever feared in her new community.

A reunion with two childhood friends draws Kathy and her companions on a nostalgic odyssey into their lives at Hailsham, an isolated private school in the English countryside, and a confrontation with the truth about their childhoods.

Chafing under the claustrophobic care of her liberal parents, Frederica Hatch finds her snug world transformed by Laura Lee French, a new college dorm mother who had once been married to Frederica’s earnest and unglamorous father.

For Eva, the divorced and happily remarried mother of three children, and her adolescent middle child, Daisy, the death of Eva’s second husband John in a car accident turns their lives upside down.

Having moved on with her life after a friend was brutally murdered, Jo Becker is now married with a grown family, but when an old housemate moves into the neighborhood, Jo rekindles a relationship that takes her back to the past and threatens her future.

Her Mormon community shattered by the murders of her two younger sisters, Veronica Swan severs ties with her family in her inability to forgive their killer, a decision that causes her to discover profound truths about sin and compassion.

Nine years after three-year-old Ben Cappadora’s kidnapping, a twelve-year-old boy knocks at the door of the Cappadora house, looking for yardwork.

Gordon McKenna and his parents must overcome their grief as they deal with the loss of their sister and daughter by devoting themselves to the care of her one-year-old daughter. The decision of who will raise her is far from over.

Presents a tale about the complicated interactions between mothers and daughters who unwittingly inflict harm on one another in spite of their best intentions.

When a baby is left on their doorstep, the lives of Lydia Blessing, the elderly town matriarch, and Skip, her down-and-out caretaker, are transformed. Skip wants to keep the baby and raise it himself. To his surprise, Lydia wants to help. Together, they decide to keep the baby a secret between them. In the process, we discover that they have secrets of their own.

After caring for her mother during her final, painful battle with cancer, Ellen Gulden discovers many surprising things about her mother’s life and finds herself accused of murdering her mother in a mercy killing.

Her career in ruins after muttering profanity into an open mike, Meghan Fitzmaurice, host of the country’s most popular morning talk show, discovers that her disgrace has had a profound impact on the lives of those around her, including her sister Bridget, a Bronx social worker who has always lived in her shadow.

Now that she is happily divorced and recently retired, Connie Nixon is ready to get on with her life and begin living her own dreams, starting with her determination to get rid of all of the junk in the garage, but when she opens a box belonging to her daughter, her unexpected discovery transforms her life and that of her daughter.

Neve Halloran and her teenage daughter, Mickey, struggle to build a new life together amid the harsh beauty of a wildlife sanctuary in Rhode Island’s South County.

Diane Robbins is a single mother caring for a child with special needs. Her husband, Tom, abandoned them when he heard that his daughter was not perfect. It was Tom’s brother, Alan, the town pediatrician, who stood by Diane and her daughter. Alan has hid his love for Diane knowing that she wanted no further involvement with men. It’s up to Diane’s daughter to remind them of all the forms that love can take.

Twenty years after the unsolved murder of her sister Lila, Ellie’s chance meeting with the man accused of the crime leads to the discovery of Lila’s secret notebook, filled with mathematical equations that lead to other enigmas in her sister’s life.

Photographer Abby Mason’s life is changed forever by the disappearance of the young girl with whom she had been walking on a cold and foggy beach, and her desperate search for the truth behind the child’s vanishing.

Remembering the December afternoon twenty years earlier when her father and she found an abandoned infant in the snow, Nicky recalls her father’s efforts to escape society after a tragedy and a young woman’s struggles to live with her choices.

Talking her way into the Norfolk cottage that the Smart family is renting for the summer, Amber, an enigmatic con artist, insinuates herself into the lives of Eve, her husband Michael, and their children.

After the tragic death of his young wife, Reverend Tyler Caskey, a New England minister, struggles to hold together his own life, his family, and his town, while dealing with his personal anger, grief, and loss of faith.

A chance encounter between two families — the Donaldsons, and the Iranian-born Yasdans — at the Baltimore airport, as both couples await the arrival of an adopted daughter from Korea, prompts an examination about what it means to be an American while the lives of the two families intertwine over the years.

Caroline Winters’ family broke apart after the disappearance of her five-year old sister, but now, fifteen years later, she has seen someone who looks like her sister and she sets out on a journey to find her.