Samantha Owens’ estranged stepfather has died, leaving her his cottage in Nantucket – a place she fled years ago, never planning to return. As a single mom, Samantha can’t afford to pass up a financial windfall like ocean-front property. So she travels home to fix up the house and sell it… never suspecting that Landon Reed still lives two doors down…
Lydia still can’t believe that she is Mrs. Samuel Bontrager. Or that she is seventeen with a six-month-old daughter. As Baby Mattie grows fussier by the day, Lydia wonders how she will survive a lifetime of marriage to a man she doesn’t love—at least not in the way she wants…
A. J. Degulio loved the idea of a visit to the Old Country – until her family decided to stay. Now it’s 1972 and she’s turning fourteen in a crumbling castle on a hill in Tuscany, wishing she were back in Idaho with her beloved dog, Sailor. In Italy, her fair complexion and blonde hair make her stick out like a vanilla wafer in a box of chocolate biscotti. What’s worse, her grandma’s losing her marbles and Mama’s going crazy over Uncle Nick’s ugly blue villa, which she can see from every window…
