Camille moved her daughters to Little Gale, Maine from New Orleans to escape her abusive husband. What they thought was a stopping point turned into home and 25 years later, The Little Gale Gumbo Cafe has become an island staple. Camille and her landlord Ben Haskell, along with Camille's daught...
And what had she, Thea, done? Had she yanked the fire hose from the hall wall and doused them both with it, hoping the water pressure might be strong enough to send the cheaters sailing down the hall on a wave? No! Spineless, sniveling coward that she was, she’d simply gone mute, spun around and ...
started in the late 1800s. From the beginning, it was the Cape’s simplicity, its natural charms that held appeal for the wealthy city dwellers who came to claim the land. Early architects were instructed to build with the landscape in mind, to construct big but undecorated homes. Those who moved ...
In truth, she’d known it far longer than she’d let on. The instant Linus had labored off the rescue boat, the very first moment their eyes had met across the landing, Lydia Harris had known her husband was no longer her husband; that something within him, something deep, something binding, was no...
It wasn’t the sort of wall-shaking, fainting-spell-inducing alarm that people often reported in the seconds before they lose someone they know. She’d heard about those moments, known neighbors and friends, deeply spiritual people, who swore they had sensed the passing of their loved one in the se...
Collins, he met Jimmy Parsons. Before Jimmy Parsons, it had never occurred to Whit to envy a boy for having a father. He’d envied Ronald Crispin, whose father had left town with another woman when Ronald was three. And Joey Rogers, because his father was serving time for s...