While Beverly wrestles with the decision of whether or not to move to Marble Cove for good, Shelley is occupied with starting her baking business, Diane receives an offer from a publisher to buy her first book, and Margaret comes face to face with an old nemesis.

Moving his young bride to an isolated lighthouse home on Australia's Janus Rock where the couple suffers miscarriages and a stillbirth, Tom allows his wife to claim an infant that has washed up on the shore, a decision with devastating consequences.

Beverly is gaining confidence in her new business, although her request for exclusivity in her relationship with Jeff Mackenzie leads to a disagreement. Margaret is asked to exhibit at a prestigious art fair in Port Clyde. Nagging questions over the success of her first book dampens Diane's happiness in being a published author. And Shelley is delighted by a surprise weekend anniversary trip.

A local Kentucky reporter must convince people that an age-old local legend has come to life after he receives a suicide note from the builder of a homemade lighthouse in the middle of the woods.

"Diane was given three months to live, until one day, after much prayer, the cancer just disappeared. After moving into a charming new cottage in Marble Cove, where she spent many summers when her kids were young, she becomes friends with her neighbors, except for Beverly, who at first politely rebuffs her attempt at friendship. The women wrestle with what their strange bond means and why God has saved them and given them a second chance at life....

Diane is anticipating a visit from her daughter Jessica and Jessica's boyfriend, when an e-mail reminds Diane that three chapters of her book were due yesterday. Will her all-night writing session ruin Jessica and Martin's visit or, worse, Diane's health? Meanwhile, Shelley is dismayed when goodies begin reaching customers in terrible shape and Dan seems increasingly miserable in his new job. Can she find the wisdom to help both of them over their...

In an isolated lighthouse on the California coast, Rowan Winterbourne lives a solitary life with only her secrets for company. For she has a mission that drives her—to avenge herself against Gregory Torval, the powerful drug and arms dealer who murdered her mother and vowed to eliminate everyone in her family. Then Joe Grantham arrives at her door and, for the first time, Rowan lets her guard down—a dangerous mistake when he blackmails...

"In the summer of 1951, Miranda Schuyler arrives on elite, secretive Winthrop Island as a schoolgirl from the margins of high society, still reeling from the loss of her father in the Second World War. When her beautiful mother marries Hugh Fisher, whose summer house on Winthrop overlooks the famous lighthouse, Miranda's catapulted into a heady new world of pedigrees and cocktails, status and swimming pools. Isobel Fisher, Miranda's new stepsister--all...

Fleeing a hated job and a fiancé she does not love, Ellen visits her aunt's cottage on the wild Irish coast of Connemara and becomes engrossed in a local tragedy involving a young mother's death in a lighthouse fire.

When her late father's diaries are discovered after a tragic accident, Elizabeth, whose eyesight has failed, explores the diaries and the mysteries of her past with the help of Morgan, a delinquent teenager performing community service at Elizabeth's retirement home.