"Down a narrow alley in the small coastal town of Mallow Island, South Carolina, lies a stunning cobblestone building comprised of five apartments. It's called The Dellawisp and it is named after the tiny turquoise birds who inhabit the building, alongside the human tenants, and imbue it with an air of magical secrecy. When Zoey Hennessey comes to claim her deceased mother's apartment at The Dellawisp, she meets her quirky, enigmatic neighbors, including...

It's the dubious distinction of thirty-year-old Willa Jackson to hail from a Southern family of means that met with financial ruin generations ago. The Blue Ridge Madam was built by Willa's great-great-grandfather during Walls of Water's heyday. It now stands as a lonely monument to misfortune and scandal. Willa herself has strived to build a life beyond the brooding Jackson family shadow - no easy task in a town shaped by the well-marked boundaries...

The first time Eby Pim saw Lost Lake, it was on a postcard, half a life ago. Now it is about to slip into Ebys past. Her husband George is long passed away, and most of her demanding extended family are gone. All thats left is a once-charming collection of lakeside cabins succumbing to the Southern Georgia heat and an assortment of faithful misfits drawn back to Lost Lake year after year by their own unspoken dreams and desires. Its not enough to...

This collection of novellas reveal that childhood is sweetly sad and sadly sweet; profound and deceptively easy to categorize, yet poignant to remember.

1) Willa Jackson lives a quiet life and minds her own business. Then she recieves an invitation to a gala at a haunted mansion built by her ancesters. 2) Marcy Taggart is in a bad way: her husband left her and her drowed in a canoeing accident. Or did she?