Claire Danner Crispin has a problem with setting limits. All her life she has taken on every responsibility, assumed every burden, and granted every request. Claire wants it all, and in the eyes of her friends, she has it: a hard-working, devoted husband, four beautiful children, even a successful career as an artist. So when Claire is asked to chair the committee for the social event of the year, the Nantucket's Children Summer Gala, what else can...

After her boss in a high-powered Washington public relations firm is caught in a political scandal, fledgling lobbyist Dempsey Jo Killebrew is left almost broke, unemployed, and homeless. Out of options, she reluctantly accepts her father's offer to help refurbish Birdsong, the old family place he recently inherited in Guthrie, Georgia. All it will take, he tells her, is a little paint and some TLC to turn the fading Victorian mansion into a real-estate...

Calling off her high-society wedding after discovering her fiance's infidelity, Keely Murdock faces financial ruin before receiving assistance--and an opportunity for revenge--from the new owner of a local bra company.

Ellis, Julia, and Dorie. Best friends since Catholic grade school, they now find themselves, in their mid-thirties, at the crossroads of life and love. Ellis, recently fired from a job she gave everything to, is rudderless and now beginning to question the choices she's made over the past decade of her life. Julia-whose caustic wit covers up her wounds--has a man who loves her and is offering her the world, but she can't hide from how deeply insecure...

When death shatters the serenity of the exclusive moneyed enclave of Tuxedo Park, New York, Eliza Blake, cohost of the country's premier morning television show KEY to America, is on the scene. While attending a lavish gala at her friends' newly renovated estate, Pentimento, Eliza's host is found deada grotesque suicide that is the first act in a macabre and intricately conceived plan to expose the sins of the past involving some of the town's...

A young girl who uses fancy words and considers herself practically a poison ivy expert learns a valuable (and itchy) lesson about the plant after picking a bouquet of wildflowers in her backyard.

Antiques dealer Weezie Foley works vigorously to win a window decorating contest, an effort that is challenged when components from her display begin to disappear and her fiance begins to act in a distant manner.

Six years after her former husband was sentenced to death for a series of murders, Leigh Wren has built a new life for herself and her son, until the father of one of her ex-husband's victims reveals her past, forcing her to confront her memories of lifewith a serial killer

A lover's knot quilt becomes the catalyst for saving a troubled marriage when newspaper journalist Kendra Taylor and her husband Isaac come together to solve the mystery of the quilt and of the family he has never known.

While helping to restore the family home in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, Tessa MacCrae reevaluates her marriage and discovers an old wedding ring quilt that holds the key to forgiveness, hope, and healing.