In the summer of 1976, during their annual retreat on Cape Cod, the McKotch family came apart. Now, twenty years after daughter Gwen was diagnosed with Turner's syndrome-a rare genetic condition that keeps her trapped forever in the body of a child-eminent scientist Frank McKotch is divorced from his pedigreed wife, Paulette. Eldest son Billy, a successful cardiologist, lives a life built on secrets and compromise. His brother Scott awakened from...

The Rose Thieves gives us the Vanderwald family: flamboyant, hot-tempered Lila, who feels trapped living in a small New England town; her sentimental, eternally optimistic husband, a failed futures-market investor; and their children. An affectionate daughter steals flowers from gardens all over town for her big sister's sixteenth birthday. A tea party for the local minister is turned upside down by a four-year-old's remark. Sheep wander through the...

In the tiny town of Titan Falls, New Hampshire, the paper mill dictates a quiet, steady rhythm of life. But one day a tragic bus accident sets two families on a course toward destruction, irrevocably altering the lives of everyone in their wake. June McAllister is the wife of the local mill owner and undisputed first lady in town. But the Snow family, a group of itinerant neer-do-wells who live on a decrepit and cursed property, have brought her--and...

The now-married Jo has opened a school for boys in her late aunt's estate of Plumfield--one where pillow fights are allowed and the students are encouraged to explore their interests. With Jo's children, nieces, and nephews; various boarding students; and an orphaned street musician, life at Plumfield is never dull. But when a trouble-making new boy arrives and the students' mischief gets out of control, Jo's and her family's lives are turned upside...

Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.