The church board can't stop squabbling, and every week the congregations hears a different minister. Who will become the new minister of Grace Chapel.

"Maeve Binchy, "the grand story teller,"* returns with a cast of characters you will never forget when they all spend a winter week together on holiday at Stone House, a restful inn by the sea ... Stoneyville is a small town on the coast of Ireland where all the families know each other. When Chicky decides to take an old decaying mansion, Stone House, and turn it into a restful place for a holiday by the sea, the town thinks she is crazy. She is...

Making the startling discovery that her family finances are in dire straits is only the latest shock endured by Carley Winsted after her husband's sudden death from a heart attack. Resisting her in-laws, well-meaning overtures to take in Carley and her two daughters, the young widow instead devises a plan to keep her family in their beloved home, a grand historic house on the island of Nantucket. The solution is right at Carley's front door: transforming...

When Katie Steury hires her old friend Harley Lambright to remodel her rundown old house into a bed and breakfast, she does so with trepidation. They've always had a rocky relationship, and she is partly responsible for his most recent breakup. Harley realizes that Katie's been hiding her mother's hoarding, but they discover that clearing the debris in one old house also means they have to do some clean-up in their lives. Forced to reevaluate their...

"Rodney Schmuck and his wife, Millie, Hillside Manor's latest guests, seem normal--until Rodney insists that innkeeper Judith McMonigle Flynn is his long-lost mother. Shocked to meet an alleged son she's sure she never had, Judith can't believe Rodney when he swears he has proof from a hospital birth certificate listing her as his mother. The father's name is Unknown. But Judith's got a bigger problem when one of the B&B guests turns up dead in the...

One in a million: Widow Stephanie Wynne is happy to be in control of her own life. When she rents a room in her bed and breakfast to FBI negotiator Nash Harmon, trained to be cool and detached, he is drawn in by Stephanie's lively family and, for the first time in his life, understands why people have ties. Only Stephanie doesn't want ties, at least to Nash. Convincing her that she has, indeed, found the one may be the toughest negotiation of Nash's...

In the charming rural town of Trail Stop, Idaho, accessible to the outside world by only a single road, young widow Cate Nightingale lives peacefully with her four-year-old twin boys, running a bed-and-breakfast. Though the overnight guests are few and far between--occasional hunters and lake fishermen--Cate always manages to make ends meet with the help of the local jack-of-all-trades, Calvin Harris, who can handle everything from carpentry to plumbing....

At Home in Stone Creek: "It's hard for Ashley O'Ballivan not to feel a little lonely. After all, everyone in her family is marrying and having babies--except her. She hasn't had a booking at her bed-and-breakfast in far too long. And she hasn't seen or heard from the handsome, mysterious man who broke her heart in months. But then Jack McCall suddenly reappears--with no explanations and no promises. Ashley knows Jack has secrets, secrets he says he...

When Ruby Tooms, the world-weary barmaid she met at Oktoberfest, arrives at her bed-and-breakfast with some unexpected baggage, Judith McMonigle Flynn, after much coercing by her husband, agrees to help Ruby solve the 20-year-old mystery of her mother's murder. Ruby’s mother was strangled soon after her divorce from Ruby’s father—and the killer is still at large.

When Justine and Seth lose their restaurant, The Lighthouse, to arson, they must rebuild their lives and their marriage, while the residents of Cedar Cove go about their daily business, dealing with marriages, births, reunions, and scandal. --