When Susannah realizes her fourteen-year-old daughter Kate
begins to engage in self-destructive behavior and her eleven-year-old son Quinn
is being bullied in school she decides to move her children to the northwest to
Sounder Island where life is simpler for a year. Susannah doesn’t realize the toll her
decision will take on herself, her children and her marriage to Matt, a man she
has loved for most of her life. On the
island, Susannah meets Betty who has been living on the island refuge for
almost fifty years. Betty has seen the
consequences of the decisions she made to live on the island and strikes up an
unexpected relationship with Susannah which helps both women come to peace with
their decisions and helps guide each toward forgiveness, most of all for
themselves. Isolated from almost
everything, Susannah and her children learn about each other and themselves
without the distractions of everyday life.
As new friendships are forged both women begin to heal and figure out
what is most important to each in her life.
Carson Forsyth is dying and he and his wife Elaine have
returned to her child hood home, a tree house high above a North Carolina lake. As Carson
faces his approaching death, Elaine tries to envision a life without Carson . What she doesn’t count on is Carson ’s mother Greta, who has not spoken to
Elaine in over twenty years. Greta has
just been arrested for setting a neighbor’s herd of alpacas loose and while Carson finds the
situation hilarious, Elaine is not sure what to make of the woman who never
accepted Elaine and Greta’s grandson Mick.
After Carson ’s
death, the three much must learn how to live without him and learn how they are
to create a family. When Mick learns his
family may be larger than he expected after a summer relationship with a local
girl, and Greta accuses Elaine that Mick is not Carson ’s son, both Mick and Elaine find
themselves questioning the lives they knew and the families they thought they
had. As the three grieve and learn to
live with their grief, their family goes through a kaleidoscope of changes as
they restructure their lives and relationships.
Margaux Sullivan had dreamed of being a top designer since
she read her first copy of a bridal magazine.
Her climb to the top has not come without cost, but she has finally made
it and her designs, under the house of M Atelier have been featured in Vogue and Marie Claire. Margaux,
however, did not pay as much attention to her husband as she did to the details
of her designs and is shocked to learn he has cleaned out their bank accounts
and left. She finds herself penniless
except for one car, her business completely repossessed, her life a shambles
and can think of only one place to retreat to lick her wounds, heal and
refocus, the coastal town of Crescent Cove, Connecticut, where she summered
with her family and where she had an annual crush on townie Nick Prescott who
is now the interim chief of police of Crescent Cove. Nick has also given up his dreams to return
home to Crescent Cove where he is taking care of his now orphaned nephew,
Connor. Together, with the nurturing of
their friends and families, these two lost souls will find their ways back to
themselves and to each other, learning to forgive and asking for forgiveness
along the way and learning what is really important. When Margaux has a chance to have it all back
again, she considers it until she realizes the cost of having it all, for
herself and for others. Shelley Noble
has drawn a warm town that welcomes strangers and returnees looking for
place. She takes Margaux and Nick on a
journey neither would have expected, of themselves or each other, and they both
are surprised to find they are each exactly where they
need to be.
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