Shreve, Anita

Twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon, still dealing with the loss of her mother and baby sister two years earlier, and her grieving father's sudden decision to move to an isolated New England farmhouse, takes further steps into the adult world when she and her dad find an abandoned newborn clinging to life in the woods near their home, and later come to know the young mother and learn her story.

Claire Daussois, sheltering refugees in her home in Belgium during World War II, falls passionately in love with a downed American pilot, despite the fact she is married and the relationship has no future.

British newlyweds Margaret and Patrick decide to spend a year living in Kenya, where photojournalist Margaret begins to realize how little she knows about her husband, but when the couple is invited on a climbing expedition to Mount Kenya, tragedy strikes and scars their marriage forever.

Twenty-nine-year-old Sydney, once divorced and recently widowed, takes a tutoring job at the summer cottage of the Edwards family on the New Hampshire coast where she is supposed to prepare daughter Julie for the SAT exam, but what she anticipated as a relaxing idyll becomes complicated when she discovers Julie is a "slow" learner, she clashes with Mrs. Edwards, and the two grown Edwards sons become rivals for Sydney's affections.

Nicholas Van Tassel, having glimpsed Etna Bliss standing under a street light, falls immediately in love and rearranges his entire life around the goal of making her his wife.

Honora and Sexton throw themselves into the beach house they are renting, and which Sexton is buying, but his timing is wrong and financial pressures mount. As the economy staggers, Honora realizes she doesn't really know this man she has married. As their world flies apart, bonds with others on the beach bind them all together.

In 1899, and Olympia Biddeford, while spending the summer at her father's New Hampshire estate, is entranced by John Haskell, a charismatic physician, and becomes involved in a fiery love affair. Unfortunately, her love affair is exposed and Olympia is pregnant. Her father questions judgment and insists that she bread off her relationship.

Story of a photographer investigating a murder scene in New Hampshire begins to question her own life and marriage rethinking her ideas concerning trust and passion and exploring the farthest extremes of emotion.

Linda Fallon travels to a literary festival to give a reading from her latest work, but while she is there she encounters her former lover, Thomas James, and together, the couple share memories of their past affair.