Green, Jane

A young woman in search of her identity leaves her cut-throat finance job in New York and settles in a dilapidated cottage in Connecticut that she rents from her next door neighborhood, a local handyman and single father. When the couple falls in love and starts to imagine life together as a family, fate intervenes in a startling way and she is forced to fight for what she loves.

Grace and Ted Chapman, literary power couple, are good at hiding the secret of Ted's rages and moodswings and Grace's dark past until Ted's longtime assistant leaves, and they find their marriage threatened when they hire new assistant Beth.

Twenty years after her husband committed suicide, Nan learns that her money has run out, forcing her to open her rambling old house on Nantucket to strangers, but, as her rented rooms fill with a diverse cast of characters, Nan learns it is possible to find true friendship and unexpected happiness in the darkest circumstances, even when a surprising guest throws Nan, and the rest of her family, for a loop.

Story of two women who live on opposite coasts but whose lives are connected in ways they never could have imagined when a shocking secret is revealed.

Callie Perry, a successful family photographer living in upstate New York, and her younger sister, Steffi, a free spirit who works as a vegan chef in Manhattan, receive shocking news that summons them to a summer in Maine and changes their lives forever.