Everyone in Yorktide, Maine, knows sixteen-year-old Sarah Bauer. She' a good student, a dutiful daughter, and Cordelia Kane' best friend. It's a surprise to all when Sarah reveals that she's pregnant. Her family is supportive, yet the consequences ripple in all directions. Sarah's mother seizes on an idea: make a baby quilt together. Piece by piece, a beautiful design emerges as the women who create it find strength in the friendship and love that...

Every year on March 26th, Verity Peterson visits Ogunquit Beach to launch a message in a bottle into the waves for the daughter she hasn't seen in sixteen years. Since the baby's father, Alan, took two-month-old Gemma and disappeared, Verity has kept searching and hoping. And finally, one phone call may change everything . . .

"It came as no surprise to anyone in Yorktide when glamorous Carol Ascher fled the little Maine town for New York City. While Carol found success as an interior designer, her younger sister, Bonnie, stayed behind, embracing marriage and motherhood. She even agreed to take in Carol's teenage daughter during a tumultuous patch. Now both their girls are grown and Bonnie, recently widowed, is anticipating the day she'll retire to Ferndean House, the nineteenth-century...