nantucket island (mass.)

Arriving on Nantucket Island for a year with her grandmother, Lynn finds herself faced with problems of her grandmother's age, "tough kids" at school, and her own lack of self-confidence.

A history of an island off the coast of Massachusetts with particular emphasis on its long involvement with the whaling industry.

Lily Fox, the baby of her family, sends her sister Abbie urgent emails begging her to return home to Nantucket. Their middle sister, Emma, has taken to her bed, emotionally devastated after the loss of her high-powered stockbroker's job and a shockingly unexpected break-up with her fiance. Also, Lily is deeply worried that Marina, the beautiful, enigmatic woman renting their guesthouse, has set her sights on the sisters' widowed father, Jim.

Mady always felt comfortable around Gary. But when it came to leaving the island she had always known and Bill, could she do it?.

Facing homelessness and a loss of social standing after her husband cheats rich investors out of billions of dollars, Meredith and her best friend, Connie, who has troubles of her own, escape to Nantucket to heal.

Both Rachel and Obadiah want to earn some money by carrying the news of the next ship?s arrival to Nantucket.

For the last twenty-two years, Kayla, Antoinette, and Val have put aside their daily, separate lives to have a special weekend in Nantucket, where they meet to swap stories and talk about old times, but when one of them doesn't return from their latest trip, the surviving friends must find a way to overcome their grief and come to terms with the many secrets that have come out since their friend's death.

Two women in Nantucket, dealing with their own separate issues of death and heartbreak, find solace in each other's friendship.

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 Zach are making this summer complicated.