The angels who guard the Island of Heavenly Daze go on full alert during the holiday season when Vernie Bidderman receives a phone call from her husband who has not been heard from since he left to go bowling twenty years earlier, and seventy-year-old lighthouse keeper Salt Gribbon, secretly caring for his grandchildren, comes down with the flu.

When Ivy Darling and her husband Nick temporarily foster three abandoned children from next door, Nick refuses to consider a more permanent arrangement until it slowly begins to dawn on him how much they mean to him.

Reverend Winslow Wickam is thrown into a pit of self-doubt and despair when he overhears his parishioners planning to replace him, while Olympia de Cuvier and her niece Annie struggle to get along for a short weekend, and soon the trio realizes they have the power to help one another.

As the Darling sisters move through tragedy and triumph, between shadows and the limelight, each must find a path into the freedom of who God intended her to be.

In the wake of WWII, a grieving fisherman submits a poem to a local newspaper: a rallying cry for hope, purpose . . . and rocks. Its message? Send me a rock for the person you lost, and I will build something life-giving. When the poem spreads farther than he ever intended, Robert Bliss's humble words change the tide of a nation. Boxes of rocks inundate the tiny, coastal Maine town, and he sets his calloused hands to work. Decades later, Annie Sawyer...

A note from Delia Blanchard So many things have been happening here at our family's mansion,I can't go home to Hawaii: I've met my long-lost grandparents; learnedthe woman shot to death in the library was my aunt, not my mother;and been threatened by a blackmailing loan shark! And Shaun Murphyis back in my life—he was hired to repair the damage after theshooting. He's been rather distant with me, but I think, with God's help, I can convince him...

"Twenty years ago, two weeks before their intended wedding day, tragedy tor Megan Brooks and Alec Black apart. They haven't seen each other since. Someone has been watching them, though, and attacking the members of the would-be bridal party. Megan knows she must confront her past by coming home and facing Alec, now the sheriff of Whisper Lake, Maine. He's the last man she wants to see, yet he's the only one who can keep her safe"--P. [4] of cover....

"In 1942, an impulsive promise to her brother before he goes off to the European front puts Avis Montgomery in the unlikely position of head librarian in small-town Maine. Though she has never been much of a reader, when wartime needs threaten to close the library, she invents a book club to keep its doors open. The women she convinces to attend the first meeting couldn't be more different--a wealthy spinster determined to aid the war effort, an exhausted...

"Nothing is more important to Jane Darling than her family. She's dedicated her life to raising her children, and they all appear to be doing well. She can finally relax and enjoy life. But when her husband becomes seriously ill, Jane finds herself taking on the most difficult role of her life. Laura Darling moved away to escape the expectations of her family. Ever since she went through rehab, they watch her like a hawk. Now she has a good job, new...

While running away from her troubled city life, Lauren Foster never thought she'd find herself in small-town Maine, but Holiday Harbor is everything she's looking for. The townspeople are welcoming, her job at her friend's toy store is going well, and, most importantly, she's safe. Meeting contractor Ben Thomas soon changes all that. With his good looks, easygoing nature, and kind heart, he's turning her peaceful new life upside down. She's quickly...