Coleman

The Coleman Family of Nantucket is a piece of work. Samantha's father, Roland, is obsessed with image and money, so much so that Sam's career as a social worker who specializes in addiction recovery is a "stain" on the Coleman reputation. Now, Samantha is forty-five years old and newly divorced. The further she gets from her relationship with her ex-husband, Daniel, the more she understands she married a manipulative and cruel individual, one not unlike her father. When her Great-Aunt Jessabelle passes away and leaves her home to Samantha, Sam and her daughters, Darcy and Rachelle, begin refurbishment on The Jessabelle House, a glorious house not far from the town of Siasconset on Nantucket. Once there, Samantha discovers her aunt's diaries, which reveal dramatic secrets from the past-and still more reasons not to trust the Colemans. As Samantha dives deeper into her family's history and Jessabelle's stories, she finds herself learning more about what it means to be a powerful woman who knows who she is and what she wants. If the Colemans are willing to open their hearts and start anew, Samantha just might have the tools to help them. But they'll have to start talking to her, first.

Thirty years ago, Nora Fuller lost everything, and it's all Charlie Coleman's fault. At seventeen, Charlie Coleman was on top of the world. He was captain of the football team, dating the smart and beautiful Shawna David, and on his way to becoming another pillar of his Nantucket community, just like his father before him. But all that changed in the blink of an eye. It's been thirty years since the accident, and Charlie is still overwhelmed with guilt. Why has he been blessed with so much, a gorgeous wife, three children, and two grandchildren, while Nora is left with nothing? Why did he escape that night with his life? Nora has spent most of the past thirty years alone, save for her great-nephew, Jax. When Jax and Charlie's daughter, Marcy, fall in love during another gorgeous Nantucket summer, Nora and Charlie aren't pleased in the least. But Nora and Charlie must face the past, rather than be suffocated by it, and for Charlie, that means understanding Nora's anger much more than he bargained for.

Hilary and Aria have never needed anyone but each other. Because Aria's father left Nantucket before she was born, Hilary isn't sure why anyone would fall in love on purpose, and she's fought hard to become a sought, after interior designer for Sotheby's. Plus, now that Aria left Tufts University, she's been tagging along with her mother as an interior design apprentice, which thrills them both. But everything changes in August, when Hilary notices something wrong with her eyes. This happens smack-dab in the middle of a gig out in San Francisco, where her ex just happens to live these days, and where she and Aria play "happy family" with him in a way that breaks both of their hearts. As Hilary and Aria whip back and forth from San Francisco to Nantucket, Hilary's eyes continue to worsen, and she begins to reckon with the fact that her eyes, and her career, might be on the verge of failing. Add to that a handsome stranger who's falling for her-and the fact that the moment he learns about her eyes, he'll probably drop her. But not all is as it seems, and as Hilary and Aria learn and grow within their careers, their relationships, and with one another, they find ways to fight their inner darkness and find hope, despite terrible circumstances.

Twenty-five years ago, Oriana hid a devastating professional mistake-and now must face the consequences. Oriana Coleman is one of the most sought-after art dealers on the east coast, renowned in New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo. She fought tooth and nail to get to the top, and didn't always play by the rules. At the beginning of Oriana's career, her best friend and coworker swapped out a multi-million-dollar painting for a very convincing forgery. When she confessed to the crime, Oriana knew better than to tell anyone she hadn't noticed the painting was a fake. It would have destroyed her reputation and dropped her back on square one. But Oriana was never really able to escape the past-and when someone blackmails her with information about what happened all those years ago, she's forced to reckon with her demons, before her career is destroyed forever.

Meghan Coleman has been head-over-heels for her husband, Hugo, for twenty-seven years. But one afternoon a few weeks before Thanksgiving, she discovers a box of letters from his ex-fiancé, which illustrate a smoldering love, one he never mentioned. Not long after that, she learns her children already knew about the ex-fiancé and kept it a secret. Tormented, she finds her world crumbling around her. Who can she trust? In downtown Oak Bluffs, Daniel owns a failing bookstore, struggles to sign the divorce papers for his wife, and cares for his ailing mother, who suffers from dementia. Growing up, his mother was manipulative and cruel to him and his sister, resulting in both of them fleeing the island as soon as they could. The difference between himself and his sister is that he actually kept in contact with his mother and returned when she couldn't care for herself. Lisa, on the other hand, abandoned everyone-and they never heard from her again. Through a chance encounter, Meghan and Daniel find one another in the midst of their sorrows and support one another. It's been a long time since either of them had a friend they could count on. But more than that: they're more connected than they think. Very soon, they find their stories coming together in a climactic ending-one that will change Meghan and Daniel's families forever.

Estelle Coleman is on cloud nine. She's just released a new novel, A Bright Christmas, a joint love letter to her husband, Roland, and her mother, who died so long ago. She's thrilled to reveal another piece of her soul to her incredible fans. This is the life of her wildest dreams. But another romance writer named Margorie Tomlinson can't stand Estelle's fame. She'll stop at nothing to take Estelle down. Margorie accuses Estelle of plagiarism and seeks immediate legal action. Estelle's publisher drops their newest deal, and Estelle's readers begin to turn on her. Across the internet, the romance community burns with opinions. For Estelle, this is a nightmare. Is her writing career really over, just because some woman she barely knows made up a story about her? But what Estelle doesn't know is this: in the past, something happened that linked her and Margorie's stories forever. As Estelle fights to understand what went wrong, she falls through memories of Christmas 1971-a time when she and the love of her life nearly separated forever. A time when the life of her dreams felt impossible. Can Estelle save her writing career? And will Margorie ever find peace after a tumultuous past?