Driven to find her family of origin after the death of her adoptive mother, thirty-six-year-old architect Chelsea journeys to the New Hampshire town of her birth and finds herself falling in love with local resident Judd Street.

For Annie Barnes, going home to Middle River means dealing with truths long hidden. But it is a journey she knows she must take if she is to put to rest, once and for all, her misgivings about her mother's recent death. To an outsider, Middle River is a picture-perfect New Hampshire town. But Annie grew up there, and she knows all its secrets--just like her idol, Grace Metalious, author of the infamous novel Peyton Place, which laid a small town's...