As Hope Lyndhurst-Steele approaches her 50th birthday, although she "has it all"--top magazine job, wonderful husband, loving son, many friends--fifty still feels like a four-letter word. When she returns to the office after her holiday break, she's informed by senior management that she has been fired. As she starts spending her days at home, her relationship with her usually patient husband Jack starts to become strained, and her teenage son is...

Devasted by the deaths of her husband and daughter, Rae Newborn seeks refuge on the remote, uninhabited island of Folly, and finds herself battling melancholy, loneliness, panic, and the feeling that malevolent watchers are threatening her life.

"After years of skilled work and dedication, Trisha Donahue is denied a well-earned promotion by her company's male executives, who give it instead to an underqualified man. Devastated, forty-four-year-old Trisha begins to reckon with the demands that exhaust her, the injustices that confront her, and the ways she has betrayed herself "just to fit in" with coworkers who resent and belittle her abilities. But at the Rose & Emerald - a unique rural...

Bernie Moon, tired, menopausal, and feeling invisible, is shocked when a murder in a local park unlocks childhood memories that reveal a talent that she has hidden all her adult life.

Betts hasn't been back to Bulls Island since the tragic night that ended her engagement to Charleston's golden boy. Twenty years later, she leaves her comfortable life and is back in contact with everything she's tried to hard to forget.

Newly married Minty Lloyd is haunted by the ubiquitous reminders of her husband's first wife, Rose, until a shocking telephone call causes her to forge an unexpected alliance.

"Gabby and Elliott have been happily married for eighteen years. They have two teenaged daughters; they have built a life together. So why does forty-three-year-old Gabby feel like she has only three more minutes left of youth? Why do her friends so desperately try to hang on to their attractiveness? And why does she ever even look at the handsome guy--ten years younger--at the other end of the bar one night? Gabby is the last person to have an affair--a...