As Emmalyn Ross awaits the return of her husband from a five-year prison sentence, she retreats to a scenic Lake Superior island to restore a local cottage, where she befriends several colorful locals and works through her issues.

"Award-winning novelist's heartwarming story about family and love lost, found, and finally truly revealed at Christmas"-- "Christmas takes a very different turn when the guests of honor break up instead of announcing their engagement. Trapped with his family, they learn that love looks different than either imagined. Both in their eighties, Dodie and Wilson Binder celebrate every Christmas as if it were their last. This year, their grandson Micah...

"While her humanitarian husband Liam has been digging wells in Africa, Mara Jacobs has been struggling. She knows she's supposed to feel a warm glow that her husband is eight time zones away, caring for widows and orphans. But she is exhausted, working a demanding yet unrewarding job, trying to manage their three detention-prone and needy kids, failing at her to-repair list, and fading like a garment left too long in the sun. Then Liam's three-year...