Bøger af Katie Winters

Martha's Vineyard's Sisters of Edgartown face their forties -- a decade of change, of heartache, of divorce, of illness, and of second-chances and love. Just as they've done everything else, they'll do this together. Side-by-side, till the end.Twenty-three years ago, Jennifer Connelly's twin sister, Michelle, died in a boating accident. She was the sixth Sister of Edgartown, the best-friendship-group that struck gold with one another at age four -- Jennifer, Michelle, Olivia, Mila, Camilla, and Amelia.The accident changed their lives forever, of course -- but it hit Jennifer particularly hard. Michelle had been so much of what Jennifer wasn't: wild and electric and untethered.Now, just weeks from her forty-first birthday, Jennifer faces another season of strife. In the previous year, her marriage ended; her son got engaged; and her father took to the bottle hard. Just when she throws herself totally into her social media business, she receives a call from Camilla, a nurse at the hospital: her mother has had a stroke.It seems likely her already-broken family has even more breaking to do.Her mother's recovery is a long one. Never one to give up, Jennifer throws herself into her mother's bakery, the Frosted Delights, as Christmas approaches. There's no way she'll let that third-generation bakery fall apart. Not when everything else is.But a handsome stranger may stand in the way of the business. He demands she leave the premises, as he bought the property months ago -- and has plans to tear it down to break ground on yet another hotel and event space.Jennifer and the other Sisters of Edgartown must pull together to fight for the Frosted Delights Bakery, for their families, and for the island of Martha's Vineyard itself. They've already lost so much. There's no way they'll let him take this.Dive into book one of the Sisters of Edgartown: A heartwarming journey of friendship, loss, and love, and one that will make you fall in love with the Sisters of Edgartown and want the next book.For fans of Pamela Kelley, Caroline Brown, and Debbie Macomber.

An injured army veteran. A near-fatal car accident. And a snow-capped Martha's Vineyard Christmas -- the kind that can mend any broken family.Andrew Montgomery is the black sheep of the Montgomery family.Seventeen years ago, Andy and his best friend, Kurt, took off for the army and planned to never look back. Once overseas, they realized the depths of their mistake. But once Kurt died in combat, Andy decided to turn his back on his past for good.Years later, Andrew is bound to the US again with an injury. A phone call a few weeks before Christmas changes everything and beckons him home.His father, Trevor Montgomery, has been involved in a horrible car accident. He might not make it.When Andrew returns to the island, he finds himself in the center of so many ghosts. His siblings are all in their late-thirties and forties. Their children have grown up, some of them with children of their own. Andrew has missed so much, and he also realizes just how alone he's been over the years. They still call him "Andy," but they no longer see their baby brother. They see an injured vet.And worse than that, Kurt's sister and Andrew's high school love, has lived so much of her life alone while raising a child with autism. Just one look in her eyes reminds Andrew of all the passion he once had for her. It isn't gone.As days pass, Andrew finds himself falling deeper into a world he once abandoned. He realizes just how much his siblings have needed him over the year -- especially when it comes to Kelli's verbally abusive husband and Charlotte's husband's death.As they count down the days before Christmas, Andrew falls for the life he once hated. He learns to fight for his family members. And he searches for the right words to say to a father that he very nearly lost.Can he find a way to mend his family, just as his cousins, the Sheridan sisters, have managed? Can he find love, even after so many years of darkness and pain?Join the Montgomery and Sheridan family over a snow-capped, heartfelt, and emotional December on Martha's Vineyard.

A never-before-seen Christmas guest arrives to the island, filled with secrets of her own. The Sheridans welcome a brand-new baby. Complications arise left and right as the Sheridan sisters grapple with another season of changes.The Sheridan sisters' mother, Anna Sheridan never spoke much about her family, which is why the appearance of her younger sister is a surprise for all of them. She brings with her a host of troubles at the very worst time, as Audrey arrives home from a tumultuous semester at Penn State, just as Christine gives birth to her very first child.Audrey has had a horrendous time away from baby Max. She grapples with guilt for going after her dreams, as she fears missing out on more essential moments in Max's life, and also questions her feelings for the handsome man she met earlier this year, when Max was in the hospital after birth. Romantic love has never been particularly good to her. Why should she trust it, now?Christine faces the biggest mountain of all: motherhood. Is she ready for this stage of her life? She's feels as big as a whale and terrified of making every possible mistake.The Vineyard Christmas Guest will prove herself a missing link of their happiness during a strange and overwhelming Christmas time, with all the familiar cast of Sheridan family members: Susan, Christine, and Lola, plus their daughters, partners, father, cousins, and friends.Dive into this heartfelt women's fiction series by heading to Martha's Vineyard-- a backdrop of white sand and crystal blue waters that follow the stories of the Sheridan sisters. A heartwarming journey of friendship, loss, and love that will have you wanting the next book.

A Chicago jazz pianist on the brink of enormous change. A Bar Harbor Sous Chef who risks it all for love. And one fateful night over forty years ago that united them forever. Angela Montague celebrates New Year's Eve as she always has: performing in the jazz ensemble that she started with her husband, Felix, twenty years ago. An hour into the new year, she learns the devastating truth of her husband's affair with another member of the jazz group. In one fell swoop, she loses her husband and her music career. And it's only January 1st.Two other factors make an already messy year much worse. First, her twenty-year-old daughter, Hannah, has refused to speak to Angie in six months. And secondly, old documents in her deceased father's office indicate that the childhood she spent in Cincinnati wasn't all it seemed to be.Secrets sizzle through Angie's past, forcing her to face the shattered wreckage of her and her daughter's relationship, develop self-respect, and eventually, dig into the truth -- a truth that inevitably takes her and her daughter cross-country, to the rocky coastline of Bar Harbor, Maine.In Bar Harbor, Luke Ewing has fallen head-over-heels for the youngest Harvey Sister, Heather Harvey Talbot. But Heather's been through a minefield of emotional duress and is resistant to the power of his love. When Luke thinks all is lost, he takes a risk that very well could unite them forever -- if they're both brave enough to accept this new chapter. Dive into this new women's fiction series, Mount Desert Island - an unfolding family drama of heartache, longing, and secrets on a beautiful island off the coast of Maine.

Olivia Hesson finds herself in a world of family secrets, new loves, and historic buildings -- all because of her great-aunt's will.When her great-aunt passes away, she names Olivia the sole owner of one of the oldest historic buildings in Edgartown, with one demand--she must return it to its former glory.This is a lot to swallow.Like the other Sisters of Edgartown, Olivia hasn't had an easy road. She married her high school sweetheart, Tyler, and had a child, Chelsea, but found herself living out a nightmare of separation and divorce when Tyler fled the Vineyard for a better life in Boston.Since then, she's worked as the English & Creative Writing teacher at the local high school. Olivia has tried her best to manage her teenage daughter, Chelsea, who is angry and resents her for her father leaving.Her inheritance--old historic building is rife with secrets. It creaks and sighs with long-forgotten stories. And it captures Olivia's fascination in a way that surprises her.Of course, the maintenance man who lives there surprises her, too.This is book two of the Sisters of Edgartown Series: a new women's fiction series that contains a heartwarming journey of friendship, loss, and love, and one that will make you fall in love with the people of Edgartown and want the next book.For fans of Pamela Kelley, Caroline Brown, and Debbie Macomber.

The Remington Sisters and Janine and Nancy Grimson unite for a final month of Martha's Vineyard summertime splendor as they fight to heal the broken women of Katama Lodge and Wellness Spa -- and one another.As a child, Carmella Remington was boisterous, alive -- always one to move too fast, laugh too long, feel too deeply. She was the middle child of Neal Remington, the fraught one between Elsa and Colton. Until one day, Carmella made one of the biggest mistakes of her life -- a mistake so wretched that it cost Colton's life.In the wake of this, Carmella's entire life changed forever. Her mother could no longer look her in the eye, resulting in even more trauma for Carmella, especially when her mother died a few years later. Carmella built up thick walls and allowed only one woman: her stepmother, Karen, to penetrate them. Soon after, Elsa and Neal seemed to conspire against Carmella, which resulted in Neal divorcing Karen.Carmella was alone, yet again.Since then, Carmella has worked tirelessly at the Katama Lodge and Wellness Spa. She's a fantastic acupuncturist and takes pleasure in providing healing and wellness to women from all over the world. Naturally, she's never allowed such healing for her soul. She wouldn't even begin to know how.But this summer, everything has begun to change. Her father died six months before; Nancy, her current stepmother, along with Nancy's daughter, Janine, and even Elsa, Carmella's once-enemy, have joined together to make the Katama Lodge better than ever. And Carmella senses a shift in the love that swirls around them -- one that allows her, finally, to begin the healing process she should have been allowed thirty years previously.Along the way, she just might find all the things her life has been missing -- love, companionship, wealth, and loyalty. It's a new dawn for Carmella Remington. The past can stay in the past. It is time to build.Dive into book three of The Katama Bay Series -- a heartwarming journey of motherly and sisterly love, healing, and promise for better days, all on the island of Martha's Vineyard, with its gorgeous ocean views, its endless summer days, and its bubbly cast of islanders.For fans of Susan Mallery, Jill Shalvis, and Debbie Macomber.

A divorced criminal lawyer. Her first love. The island she abandoned for a better life over twenty years ago. Susan Sheridan knows Martha's Vineyard like the back of her hand. She grew up there as the eldest of the three Sheridan Sisters, their father the longtime owner of the Sunrise Cove Inn in Oak Bluffs. The Inn, the water, the sun all spun with laughter, and love, with the most important people-- her family and friends. It was her glittering, perfect life--until it wasn't. Tragedy struck over twenty years ago, and Susan has hardly said a word to her sisters or her father or anyone else she ever loved. Not until now. Her father and Sunrise Cove Inn are both falling apart, just like Susan's life. Her husband left her for the secretary at their shared law firm, and her children have their separate lives. And she's keeping her own secrets. Now it's time to go back to the island she once loved so much. Time to face the horrors and secrets of her past, everything she's tucked away since she left the Vineyard and started a family of her own. But as she digs deeper into the dark psyche of her past, she digs up old truths, lost loves, and regrets--all with the once-familiar backdrop of this gorgeous island. The Vineyard has been waiting for her. But can she handle what she finds there? Can she forgive and never again regret? Dive into this new women's fiction series by heading to Martha's Vineyard-- a backdrop of white sand and crystal blue waters that follow the stories of the Sheridan sisters. A heartwarming journey of friendship, loss, and love that will have you wanting the next book. For fans of Pamela Kelley, Caroline Brown, Debbie Macomber, and Jan Moran.