Teenaged Wyn Davies took a shortcut through the woods in her New Hampshire hometown and became a cautionary tale. Twenty years later, divorced, she lives in New York making her living painting commissioned canvases of birch trees to match her clients' furnishings. Then she hears that Robby Rousseau, who has spent the past two decades in prison for a terrible crime against her, may be released based on new DNA evidence. Wyn agrees to be temporary caretaker...

"Known for its cheerful staff and elaborate annual Easter Bonnet Contest, the Heritage House senior center regularly attracts new residents and positive press. But once the town's retired librarian, Miss Julia Tilley, checks in to recover from an illness, Lucy sees a side of the facility that isn't quite so perfect and pristine. And the place may soon be making headlines for different reasons following an unexplained disappearance ... Lucy can't fathom...

Fresh out of culinary school, Blaine Grayson returns to Three Sisters Island with plans to take Camp Kicking Moose to the next level. But Moose Manor's kitchen has been badly remodeled by her sister, Cam, who doesn't know how to cook. And she gets a cold shoulder from former-best-friend Artie Lotosky, now a doctor to the unbridged Maine islands. Can she open her heart to a purpose and a future she had never imagined? -- adapted from back cover