A grieving widow takes a solitary road trip to her late husband's favorite getaway on pristine coastal Maine, where she remembers their many happy years of family life, reevaluates the time before they met, and considers her future.

When Maude Chambliss first arrives at Retreat, the seasonal home of her husband's aristocratic Yankee family, she is a young bride as lush and wild as the South Carolina Low Country from where she comes. Among the patrician men and women who reside in the summer colony on the coast of Maine, she is an outsider, certain, it seems, never to fit in. But over the course of many summers, Maude comes to love the colony. It is here, along the rocky coastline,...

From childhood, Molly Bell Redwine was taught by her charismatic, domineering mother that "family is everything." But no one warned Molly that family can change unexpectedly. In rapid succession, her husband of more than twenty years abandons her for a younger woman, her mother dies, and her Atlanta clan scatters to the four winds. Molly is set adrift in a heartbeat. With her old world crumbling, Molly takes refuge with a friend on Martha's Vineyard,...

A smalltown girl, Smoky O'Donnell, moves to Atlanta to work for a magazine and becomes involved with three men: a rebellious photographer, a black freedom fighter, and the scion of an aristocratic Southern family. The civil rights movement serves as a background. By the author of Hill Towns

Reunited with her beloved college chums after years of separation, Kate Abrams, now a successful interior designer, must face the many bitter truths of her own past

Andy Calhoun comes back to the Old South with her small daughter, but her newfound happiness is threatened when her friend Tom Dabney opposes a nearby nuclear arms plant.

Catherine Gaillard and her husband go to Italy to attend a friend's wedding. This is the first time Cat has left Montview since something terrible happened to her as a child. She finds her life changing and she becomes stronger.

The story of two star-crossed cousins who rebel against the narrow and privileged aristocracy of Atlanta between 1940 and 1960.

After 21 years, Micah Winship is going home for a visit. She hasn't been home since her father threw her out, but now he is dying and asking for her. Armed with a successful career and a new found strength following her divorce, Micah is still unprepared for a past that has lain in wait for her--one that includes an old love, a spoiled sister and a plot to seize her family land.