Early spring in Maine is not the season for swimming nor for the spurts of unexpected violence that begin to erupt when strangers move in to a tranquil country village.

"Undercover English DEA agent Calvin Fisher will do anything to protect the Amish girl he loves when his brother's illness causes him to return to the Hart County Amish community that he left when he was fourteen and danger seems to follow him there"--

On Thanksgiving Day 2007, as the country teeters on the brink of a recession, three generations of the Olson family gather. Eleanor and Gavin worry about their daughter, a single academic, and her newly adopted Indian child, and about their son, who has been caught in the imploding real-estate bubble. While the Olsons navigate the tensions and secrets that mark their relationships, seventeen-year-old Kijo Jackson and his best friend Spider set out...

When novelist Eden Winter emerges from completing her latest fictional adventure, she finds that life around her has changed. The usually tranquil coastal community of Job's Harbor is all abuzz over the return of the elderly Edmond sisters. Old-timers breathlessly recount how sixty years ago, Marianne, a brilliant young pianist, eloped with the scoundrel Guy Rigby. Guy, a married man and a respected banker, cleaned out the vault when he left, ruining...