Sophie Newton is determined to prove herself to her father, who insists she could never run a successful business. She throws herself into her beachside taco stand, The Sandy Tortilla, and makes it her primary goal to show him that he’s wrong, one burrito at a time. When she loses her summer help, Sophie rushes to find a warm body to help take orders. She finds that body—and what a body!—in Montgomery Winters, a struggling actor from LA. It may not be show business, but Mont figures he can write an order for fish tacos. The money’s dead useful, though he finds it’s the curvy company that really keeps him around. As Sophie and Mont work together, they discover an intense attraction between them. But when Mont's agent calls him about a career-making audition, he decides he must pursue the opportunity, even though he can't get Sophie out of his head. Now, Sophie must choose between chasing after the man she's falling for and the business she's fought so hard to build.

As Sarah announces shes pregnant, Geology Professor Mark Kingsley retreats into silence -- their perfect marriage arrangement over. Still she remains until the doctoral acceptance letter from the University of Washington arrives. While Mark is on another hiking trip, Sarah moves out, his only contact a monthly check. In Seattle, work, graduate classes, motherhood and preparations for a return trip to West Africa for her dissertation in ethnomusicology leave Sarah little time for remorse or to grieve her grandparents recent tragic deaths. Surely, a week on the Idaho family farm will rejuvenate her and give her time to reflect. On the drive over, Sarah can almost hear the bacon sizzling in the cast iron skillet, taste her mothers cinnamon rolls. Mornings shell join her Dad on the porch to watch the sunrise above the Idaho wheat fields and listen to the meadowlarks song. Refreshed, shell leave Rachel with Mom and Dad, head back to Seattle, play matron of honor in her best friends wedding then fly to Ghana for the summer. She and her mother enjoy a shopping trip to Lewiston and reminisce while sorting through Grandma Myers hats. Will Sarahs perfect plans quickly unravel? Her menopausal mother still mourns her parents loss, her recently married younger brother is confrontational. Nightmares, unexplainable fatigue and a lengthy, soul-searching counseling session leave her exhausted and struggling to wake and her best friends wedding hoopla is another reminder shes a pining, sorta-single mom. In Ghana, fear and desperation pulse through her body with every drum beat. Exhaustion overtakes her, frightening the family whose hut she shares. Whats wrong with Sarah? Til Summers End, explores the interconnectedness of three generations -- the strain of birth, death, aging, mental and physical illness and marriage -- to pull apart or bring together. -

Thus, she had no choice but to force herself to interview him, but did not want to interview the male Director Si. Even though she did not want to interview the male Director Si, who was considered to be a top quality man who was going to have a blind date for the first time, after entering the company with great difficulty, she was forced to sign a contract with the CEO. In front of others, they were a couple, but in the back, they were busy with their own things, not interfering with each other. At the end of summer, he had thought that he would be related to him, but he was interrupted by Xuan Yi who had been secretly in love with him for the past four years. At the end of summer, Xuan Yi had thought that he would be related to him, but had been disrupted by Xuan Yi who had secretly fallen in love with him for the past four years. In an unexpected family gathering, at the end of summer, he got to know Xuan Yi's little brother, Xuan Yi Zhou. From then on, he interposed himself between brother and brother, causing the brothers to become enemies.

In this next novel in the Lowcountry Summer series, New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe returns to the charm and sultrybeauty of Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, and the Muir family--three half sisters bound by love for their grandmother and the Carolina lowcountry--in an unforgettable tale of family bonds and love as strong and steady as the tides.

Pippa knew her life all but ended seven months ago when she answered the phone call no one ever wants to receive: her husband had been in a fatal car accident. Struggling to bring up her three kids, she finds herself turning to Jimmy, her younger brother's best friend. He has his own crosses to bear, but his long-held torch for Pippa never went out. All they need to do, is take a leap of faith...

Dr. Kirsi Royston finds much more than she bargained for when she arrives in Steadfast, Wisconsin.

The summer Grace turns thirteen is when everything changes. The Vietnam War is raging, and Grace's brother, Collin, is drafted. But Collin decides to take a stand and burn his draft card, igniting a war within the family. Grace suddenly finds herself bewildered and angry, thrust into a turbulent political climate. The war is everywhere, and Grace quickly learns that she cannot escape it, no matter how hard she tries.