Jean Stone

Life is usually quiet during the off-season on Martha's Vineyard, but not for island newbie and bestselling novelist Annie Sutton...Finallly settled into her adopted island home, Annie is looking forward to writing her next mystery, making soap for her new business, and starting renovations on the Inn she plans to open by the summer. She's also enjoying spending more time with local police sergeant John Lyons, the man she's only just gotten comfortable...

"After a winter spent writing her latest novel, Annie looks forward to a summer with friends who have become like the family she never had. But then her landlord announces that his grandson will be moving into her cozy Chappaquiddick cottage--and she'll be moving out. Year-round island housing is tough to find at any time; in summer, it's nearly impossible. Shaken by the thought of being forced to leave the people and the community she's grown to...

"Finding love on Martha's Vineyard has been a dream come true--but for the bride-to-be, the price of happiness may be too high . . . With her long-awaited wedding to police sergeant John Lyons only weeks away, bestselling author and Vineyard Inn proprietor Annie Sutton is faced with more drama than usual. Between the hideous heirloom gown her new family expects her to wear and the challenges of bonding with John's contentious daughter Abigail, Annie's...

"A quaint, historic fishing village of Menemsha is a side of Martha's Vineyard that tourists don't always see. Maddie Clarke's late mother was born on the Vineyard, and Maddie hazily recalls childhood visits to her Grandma Nancy's cottage above Menemsha Harbor. Now divorced with a teenage son, Maddie is awaiting news of a tenurship at her Massachusetts college when a letter arrives that could change everything... It turns out Grandma Nancy didn't...

The women began as strangers, Katie the vibrant rock star who must choose between saving her own life and the life of her unborn child, Hannah the selfless housewife who finds herself abandoned by her friends just when she needs them most, Faye the wealthy executive who thought she'd already survived the greatest fight of her life, and Rita whose own past cannot stay hidden for long. Before the summer ends, these women will form a lasting bond. It...

Once fabulously wealthy Libby and Walter have now lost it all: the co-op, the trust fund, the house in Belize, and maybe even their retreat on Martha's Vineyard where Libby has gone into seclusion. Enter Libbys air-kissing, society friends go to the island to offer support. The women discover that Libby is beset with amnesia, her husband is missing, and a dead body has turned up in the phlox.