On the surface Rebecca is outgoing, joyous, a natural celebrator. Giving parties is, after all, her vocation, something she slipped into when Joe Davitch spotted her at a party in his family's Baltimore row house, where giving parties was the family business. Soon this man, divorced and with three little girls, swept her into his orbit and, before she knew it, she was embracing his family plus a child of their own and hosting endless parties in the...

Blinking Jack Stokes was a skinny tenant farmer, and Ruby Pitt Woodrow was "the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry". They didn't fall in love so much as they simply found each other and held on for dear life.

"Folly Beach, South Carolina, with its glistening beaches, laid-back Southern charm, and enticing Gullah tradition, is the land of Cate Cooper's childhood, the place where all the ghosts of her past roam freely. Now, thanks to a newly deceased husband whose financial and emotional perfidy has left her homeless and broke, she's returning to this lovely strip of coast. Once, another woman found comfort here: an artist, writer, and sometime colleague...

"Lucy Lang isn't looking for fireworks .... She's looking for a nice, decent man. Someone who'll mow the lawn, flip chicken on the barbecue, teach their future children to play soccer. But most important: someone who won't inspire the slightest stirring in her heart ... or anywhere else. A young widow, Lucy can't risk that kind of loss again. But sharing her life with a cat named Fat Mikey and the Black Widows at the family bakery isn't enough either....

When their new neighbor who happens to be a young widow becomes pregnant, each of the three wives on the cul-de-sac in suburban Connecticut examines her own marriage and "the loyalties that perhaps have been taken too much for granted."--Jacket.

Despite the disapproval of her late husband's parents, Meredith Stolzfus has become closer to Jonah Miller. Meredith knows that he can never replace her first love, but Jonah is head-over-heels for Meredith and cares deeply for her baby. Besides, Jonah promises to be a good provider--what Meredith needs for her son's future. Just as Meredith and Jonah begin to talk of marriage, the husband Meredith believes to be dead is about to remember something...

Meredith Stoltzfus could never love anyone like she loved her husband, Luke. When a friend from her past stops by her home to offer a helping hand, Meredith hesitantly agrees. But deep down, she feels uneasy about it. How would it look to others, seeing Jonah around so often?

Derailed by the sudden passing of her husband of thirty years, an artist on the brink of a gallery opening struggles to pick up the pieces of her life before discovering harrowing evidence of her husband's affair.

Shortly after the death of her husband, a wealthy Southern widow is visited by an impoverished young woman with a small boy. A mistress? A son? Julia Springer can't believe it, only to discover that the whole town has known for years. But she will rise to the occasion when the boy is kidnapped.

"Cyn McCall knew she could always count on her late husband's friend and business partner, Worth Lansing. He could make her laugh and forget her problems ... . The last thing Cyn expected was to find herself longing for a man who could never settle down. When Worth invites Cyn to a weekend in Acapulco, he doesn't expect to be sharing a room--or to respond to her the way he does to any beautiful woman. And while he can't help feeling he's betraying...