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18-year-old Meg Davenport is in New York City after her father dies. Never close to the man--having been raised in an exclusive prep school--Meg is surprised to learn he was not a wealthy businessman but an accomplished thief. Determined to succeed on her own, Meg decides to take up her father's trade--but at what cost?

Searching for their missing child--and for meaning--husband and wife are drawn to a remote town in the Mojave Desert, where they encounter an eclectic group that includes a British rock star and a U.S. Marine.

Willow Briars has a great career and all the outward trappings of success. But when it comes to her personal life, she's utterly miserable--until she buys a pair of vintage shoes that transform her outlook. Now she's rethinking everything she thought she knew about love, heartache, and her own self-worth.

Holton's novel finds four middle-aged friends convening at a beautifully appointed beach house--and reexamining their lives.

After a personal tragedy, writer Ava spends the summer in Woodburn, Tennessee at the invitation of an old friend and his aunts. But Woodburn Hall is anything but quiet: ancient feuds and modern-day rivalries emerge as Ava stumbles onto the darker side of the family's history, and becomes tangled in their secrets.

Exiled to Texas with his grown daughter, sculptor Francis "Gil" Gilheaney is commissioned to create a statue for a man who recently lost his son in WWI. But as work on the statue progresses, secrets slowly reveal themselves and Gil's fragile family threads begin to fray.

Tobacco brides--women prisoners shipped from England--are a hot commodity with farmers in 1643 Virginia. Drew isn't concerned about marriage--he just wants a servant to keep his house. Yet fate brings him to Constance, who claims to be a noblewoman kidnapped aboard ship. Constance is everything Drew despises in a wife--she cannot cook and she prefers mathematical equations to cleaning. Worst of all, she has red hair! But when the two are forced to marry, Constance's more enticing traits surface.

In 1970s Boston, the glossy veneer of 16-year-old Sarah Kunitz's wealthy family is starting to show cracks. Her parents' constant fighting and her mother's prescription pill abuse drive Sarah into two romantic relationships with unforeseen consequences. With grief fresh in her heart, Sarah wonders if she or her family will ever love again.

Three middle-aged sisters--each harboring a secret pain--gather to close up their grandmother's beach house for the final time. Together, they unpack their family baggage and discover the true legacy left behind by a grandma married seven times.

Carolyn takes a break from her widowed San Francisco existence to celebrate her mother's 70th birthday in the Canary Islands. As her mother's gentle affection and the islands' soothing allure soften Carolyn's heart, a Flamenco dance lesson, a defining camel ride, and the steady gaze of an old flame reawaken feelings she thought were forever gone.