Angus and Sadie, sibling pups that are of mostly border collie heritage, are adopted by a young couple and taken to live on a Maine farm, where they begin to learn sheep herding and come to appreciate their differences.
Sixteen-year-old Charlotte wants nothing more than to escape the tiny island off the Maine coast where she has spent her life, and so she works on applications to boarding schools while wondering if her parents and young siblings are ready for her to leave, or if she is ready to leave her life-long boyfriend.
Linda Greenlaw describes the challenges she faced moving home to a very small island off the Maine coast, after seventeen years as a swordboard captain, in an effort to reconnect with her parents, become a professional lobsterman, and hopefully find love.
Meg Langslow and her boyfriend, Michael, plan a romantic island getaway at her aunt's cottage off the coast of Maine, but their plans go awry when they find the cottage occupied by Meg's parents and they are called upon to help clear her father of murder.
Relates the true story of Abbie Burgess, a young girl who kept the lighthouse at Matinicus Rock, Maine, lit when her father, the lighthouse keeper, was away during a storm that lasted several weeks in 1856.