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Ruth draws on her talent for concocting delectable cakes and desserts when her family begins to disintegrate around her--her husband loses his job, her mother moves in, and her long-estranged father shows up at the door with no place to go.

After her youngest son, and last one to marry, brings home his wife, Rachel feels her role of family matriarch slipping away and must deal with the loss that comes with it, while maintaining the relationships she holds dear.

Abandoned by her mother as a child, Brigid Foster struggles with conflicted feelings when her mother reenters her life, while her summer lodger, Louise, also gives way to a painful past, with unexpected repercussions.

"A woman returns to the home of her estranged domineering father to face family secrets of the past--and present"--Provided by the publisher.

"As summer gives way to fall in Rustlers Gulch, widow Maddie McLendon begins to have second thoughts about uprooting her life to move there with her son and grandson. Contractors have yet to break ground on their new house, leaving them--along with four horses, three dogs, and six cats--to live in a makeshift camp of trailers, tents, and sheds, while a brutal Montana winter looms on the horizon. Millionaire rancher Sam Conacher doesn't take kindly...

Two families whose fates become intertwined explore the love between husbands and wives, parents and children. Set in the Bronx of the forties and fifties, and in Florida today.

Intimidated by a rich new bachelor who has arrived at her Seaside bed-and-breakfast, Cass, who is caring for her teenage niece and nephew as well as her aging parents, tackles a local mystery while helping her guest recover from his anxiety in the wake of the September 11th attacks.