nantucket island (mass.)

A summer at the exclusive Nantucket Beach Club plays a part in changing the lives of the guests who stay there.

The true feelings and secret relationships of four prominent Nantucket couples, who call themselves the Castaways, come to light after two of them drown when their boat mysteriously capsizes.

Adrienne Dealey, broke and single, decides to spend the summer working at a popular Nantucket restaurant, despite her lack of experience, but as she works to get her footing in her new career, Adrienne is intrigued by the owner, Thatcher Smith, and his relationship to Fiona, the chef.

A summer at the exclusive Nantucket Beach Club plays a part in changing the lives of the guests who stay there.

Twenty-two-year-old Josh Flynn knows instinctively that his life is about to change when he sees three women, along with two young children, arrive at Nantucket airport, and as the summer progresses, he becomes the glue that holds things together as Vicki struggles with cancer, her sister Brenda deals with a career-ending scandal, and their friend Melanie comes to grips with a cheating husband and an unexpected pregnancy.

A dysfunctional family comes together to celebrate Christmas at the inn owned by family patriarch Kelley Quinn and his second wife Mitzi. When chaos (in the form of an affair, a love triangle, a crime, and an unplanned pregnancy) ensues, Quinn's ex-wife Margaret arrives to save the family members from themselves.

Seventeen-year-old Cricket Thompson is planning on spending a romantic summer on Nantucket Island near her long time crush, Jay, but the death of her best friend's mother, and her own sudden intense attraction to her friend's brother Zack are making this summer complicated.

"Before starting college, Cricket Thompson returns to Nantucket for a summer filled with hard choices and infinite possibility"--.

In 1845 Nantucket, Hannah Gardner Price, a young Quaker, strives to discover a comet that will win her recognition by the King of Denmark and falls in love with a young whaler from the Azores who also aspires to progress beyond his station.

After the Coasties close the Madaket Station on Nantucket Island, Millie appoints herself warden, rescue squad, and sentry providing lifesaving services along the coast.