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Daisy McCrae's life is in tatters. She's lost her job, broken up with her boyfriend, and has been reduced to living in the attic above her family's store, the Union Street Bakery, while learning the business. Making things worse is the constant feeling of not being a "real" McCrae, since she was adopted as a child and has a less-than-perfect relationship with her two sisters. Then a long-standing elderly customer passes away, and for some reason she bequeaths to Daisy a journal dating back to the 1850s...

When Olympia leaves her small Virginia town, she doesn’t expect to look back, much less ever come home. But after a year on the road, her sister’s engagement pulls Olympia into everything she left behind: her family, her husband, and the grief she’s been trying to forget. She’s determined to stay a few days, maybe a week—just enough time to visit gravestones and sign off on the divorce her husband, Spencer, asked for. But he’s reeling from their shared loss, as well as complications with his aging parents, leaving his heart just as fragile as Olympia’s.

Still grieving the loss of her wandering, free-spirited mother, Lucy Kincaid leaves Nashville for the faded town of Cape Hudson, Virginia. She goes to see the house she’s inherited—one she never knew existed, bequeathed to her by a woman she’s never even met. At the heart of this mystery is the hope that maybe—just maybe—this “Winter Cottage” will answer the endless questions about her mother’s past...including the identity of her birth father.

Adrift in the wake of her father's death, a failed marriage, and multiple miscarriages, Libby McKenzie feels truly alone. Though her new life as a wedding photographer provides a semblance of purpose, it's also a distraction from her profound pain. When asked to photograph a wedding at the historic Woodmont estate, Libby meets the owner, Elaine Grant. Hoping to open Woodmont to the public, Elaine has employed young widower Colton Reese to help restore the grounds and asks Libby to photograph the process.

When a shipwreck surfaces, old secrets are sure to follow. Or so goes the lore in Ivy Neale’s hometown of Nags Head, North Carolina. When Ivy inherits her family’s beachfront cottage upon her grandmother’s death, she knows returning to Nags Head means facing the best friend and the boyfriend who betrayed her years ago. But then a winter gale uncovers the shipwreck of local legend—and Ivy soon begins to stumble across more skeletons in the closet than just her own.

Pregnant and still grieving the death of her fiancé, historian Megan Buchanan is forging ahead on a dream project: to restore to its original glory the landmark hunting lodge her own great-great-grandfather built on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. With the help of her fiancé’s caring best friend, it’s sure to draw much-needed tourist revenue to Cape Hudson, a town rich in southern history. However, it’s Spring House, the caretaker’s cottage on the grounds, that holds the most intriguing history for Megan.

As a hospice nurse, Zara Mitchell has already seen more death than most people will experience in a lifetime. So when her older sister asks her to help care for their ailing grandmother, Zara agrees - despite strained family relationships. Though pale and tired, Nonna has lost none of her sharp mind. She’s fixated on finding something long forgotten, and she immediately puts Zara to work cleaning out the attic. Amid the tedium of sifting through knickknacks and heirlooms, Zara also reconnects with a man she’s attracted to but whose complicated past makes romance seem impossible.

When artist Dani Manchester learns she’s slowly losing her vision, she becomes unmoored. Her ex-husband died only months before, leaving Dani and her preteen daughter grief stricken. Suddenly, the life Dani built for her family on the Outer Banks feels like a painful reminder of all they’ve lost. On a whim, Dani sells her waterfront home and buys an old farm inland near the Virginia state line. But Dani’s daughter recoils at the sudden, drastic change. The Outer Banks’ sun-swept beaches, pink dawns, and savage storms are all she’s ever known.

Darkness, both literal and psychological, holds its own unique fascination. Despite our fears, or perhaps because of them, listeners have always been drawn to tales of death, terror, madness, and the supernatural, and no more so than today when a wildly imaginative new generation of dark dreamers is carrying on in the tradition of Poe and Lovecraft and King, crafting exquisitely disturbing literary nightmares that gaze without flinching into the abyss - and linger in the mind long after.

Running the family bakery and living in the store's attic might not be Daisy's dream life, but she's beginning to understand what being content feels like. And then she gets some unexpected news. In one moment, Daisy's calm existence turns into chaos. Now she's struggling to keep it together, especially with renovations at the bakery spiraling out of control.

She only wanted to be a mother to her own children - FLDS Cult leader had other plans. Sarah was born in 1979 in the FLDS compound. At 18, Sarah entered into an arranged marriage to Richard S Allred who was the grandson and personal bodyguard to leader Rulon Jeffs, and later Warren Jeffs. Sarah was the first of five wives and was often used to set the example. Sarah's husband was given Warren's prized daughter as his third wife who became Warren's source to control Sarah's family. As the Leadership adjusted, her world turned upside down.

At twenty-five, Ruby Nevins has already endured more than most. But after two years of battling cancer, she’s warily determined to move forward. Researching a new project about a French actress, she soon uncovers an old diary that will change her life forever… Cécile, the “it girl” of early 1940s French cinema, vanished from Nazi-occupied Paris in 1942. Sylvia Rousseau, Cécile’s dressmaker and confidante, left that same year. Working to piece together the truth behind Cécile’s disappearance and Sylvia’s extraordinary life, Ruby recognizes the women as kindred spirits.

Da Libby McKenzie mister sin far, føler hun sig fortabt. Hendes nye arbejde som bryllupsfotograf er derfor en kærkommen distraktion. Da hun bliver hyret til at fotografere et bryllup ved den historiske Woodmont-ejendom, griber hun straks chancen for nye eventyr. Libby er betaget af stedet og især det gamle drivhus. Da bygningerne skal gennemgå en større renovation, bliver Libby tilknyttet projektet – hun skal fotodokumentere det arbejde, som den charmerende håndværker Colton udfører.

TO KVINDERS LIV FORENES PÅ TVÆRS AF GENERATIONER. Historiker Megan Buchanan er gravid og alene efter sin forlovedes død. Midt i sin sorg står hun over for sit drømmeprojekt – at restaurere en gammel jagthytte på sin tipoldefars grund. Det er dog Spring House, opsynsmandens hytte, der fanger Megans interesse. Her opdager hun en stak gamle breve, som trækker hende ind i fortællingen om en ung kvindes liv. En kvinde, som hundrede år forinden jagtede sine egne drømme.

Lucy Kincaid har netop mistet sin mor og er tynget af sorg. Hun kender ikke sin far, og hendes mors fortid er også et mysterium. Faktisk er hele Lucys familiehistorie omgærdet af mystik, og hun føler sig rodløs i livet. Så da hun pludselig står til at arve et hus i Virginia efter en person, hun aldrig før har hørt om, pakker hun bilen og hunden og drager af sted i håb om at få svar på nogle af de mange ubesvarede spørgsmål om sin families fortid.

Ein traditionsreiches Resort am Meer, ein Schiffswrack und ein altes Familiengeheimnis – der neue bewegende Roman von #1-Kindle-Bestsellerautorin Mary Ellen Taylor. Sie hatte immer geglaubt, ihre Großmutter zu kennen, aber das war wohl nur ein Teil der Wahrheit. Winter 2022: Nach dem Tod ihrer Großmutter Ruth kehrt Ivy in ihren Heimatort an der Küste von North Carolina zurück, um das Strandhaus mit seinen Erinnerungsstücken aus dem alten Seaside Resort ihrer Familie zu räumen.

Ivy Neale vender tilbage sin hjemby Nags Head i North Carolina, da hun arver sin bedstemors hytte ved havet. Hun elsker stedet, men hjemkomsten betyder også et gensyn med hendes tidligere bedste veninde og den kæreste, som svigtede hende for mange år siden. Men der er andre skeletter i skabet end hendes egne. Da hun rydder op i sin bedstemors ting, dukker der skæbnesvangre oplysninger op om en hændelse, der fandt sted på det helt vidunderlige strandhotel, hendes familie ejede i sin tid... Mens Ivy forsøger at komme overens med fortiden, kommer der en ny mand ind i hendes liv.