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Jamie Valentine is the successful author of self-help books advocating transparency in every relationship. But when her widowed mother passes away unexpectedly, Jamie discovers her own life has been based on a lie. Angry and deeply betrayed, she sets out to find the truth--which may be in a small town on the Chesapeake Bay.

Sheriff Ike Schwartz investigates two events on the same evening that he believes may be connected: the discovery of a body in the urgent-care clinic and a break-in at the house of one of Callend University's faculty. Ike thinks the faculty member's possession of an icon, "The Virgin of Tenderness," is the connection. Then a microdot found on the icon brings in the CIA to complicate Ike's investigation.

When Sheriff Ike Schwartz's fiancée, Ruth Harris, gets in a car crash and ends up in a coma, Ike is convinced the crash was rigged, but cannot prove it. Up for reelection, Ike goes on leave and finds help in his unwarranted investigation in unlikely places.

Returning home to Cannonball Island, up-and-coming artist Lisbeth Parker, while recording her ailing centenarian great-grandmother's stories of the island's rich history, goes up against a man from her past, environmental engineer Alec Jansen, who is on the opposite side of the debate over the island's future.

"It's been one year since Edie's mother died. But her ghost has never left. According to her GG, it's tradition that the dead of the Mitchell family linger with the living. It's just as much a part of a Mitchell's life as brewing healing remedies or talking to plants. But Edie, whose pain over losing her mother is still fresh, has no interest in her family's legacy as local "witches." When her mother's teenage journal tumbles into her life, her family's...

Seventeen years ago, two pink stripes on a pregnancy test changed Anne Sullivan's life. She abandoned her artistic ambitions, married her college sweetheart before graduation, and--like the mother she lost in childhood--devoted herself to her family. To say she didn't see the divorce coming is an understatement. Now, eager to distance herself from her ex and his lover, she moves with her troubled daughter, Katy, to the quaint bayside town of Potomac...