"The old Nantucket tradition of throwing a penny off the ferry to ensure your eventual return resonates for locals and visitors alike. But that ritual takes a sinister turn when, one by one, people start to disappear and the telltale pennies are found at the scene of the kidnappings. Someone is trying to send a frightening message. The race is on to save the missing people and in order to stop this chilling crime wave, Chief Henry Kennis will have...

When a Nantucket native hires the waitress who serves him coffee every morning to help locate his online friend, a mysterious woman he is falling in love with, the waitress is not inclined to help, but she must do so to prevent the man from finding out that the person he is trying to find is her

When Nantucket homeowner Preston Lomax is killed in his McMansion, everyone on the island could be a suspect. Chief of Police Henry Kennis, a newcomer from California, finds himself investigating with help from the State Police. Together they solve the case--or so it appears. But Kennis can't shake the feeling that they've missed something.

Nantucket police detective Merry Folger attempts to identify the victim and nab the killer when a several years old skeleton is found on a beach

Disregarding local gossip that pegs her as an eccentric, a sixty-five-year-old Nantucket widow skinny-dips in unattended pools and steals her neighbors' flowers before her dwindling funds force her to take in boarders, a change that brings an unexpected visitor

It's summer on Nantucket, and as the season begins, three women arrive at the local airport, observed by Josh, a local boy, home from college. Burdened with small children, unwieldy straw hats, and some obvious emotional issues, the women -- two sisters and one friend -- make their way to the sisters' tiny cottage, inherited from an aunt. They're all trying to escape from something: Melanie, after seven failed in-vitro attempts, discovered her husband's...

Returning to Nantucket to marry the love of her life, Felicia regrets the picture-perfect wedding her mother has organized, which is complicated by a mischievous cat and Felicia's judgmental, traditional sister.

Entering the afterlife due to a hit and run accident, a successful author learns she can observe the earthly lives of her nearly grown children and is also permitted three "nudges" to alter the outcome of events

"Christina Antonioni is preparing for the holidays at her Nantucket toy shop, unpacking last-minute shipments and decorating for her loyal Christmas shoppers. But when her Scrooge of a landlord, Oscar Bittlesman, raises her rent, it seems nearly impossible for Christina to continue business on the wharf. Even so, Christina hopes there is a warm heart underneath Oscar's steely exterior. When she bonds with Wink, his sweet, young granddaughter who frequents...

"The queen of beach reads" (New York Magazine) delivers another immensely satisfying page-turner in this tale about a summer of scandal at a storied Nantucket hotel After a tragic fire in 1922 that killed 19-year-old chambermaid, Grace Hadley, The Hotel Nantucket descended from a gilded age gem to a mediocre budget-friendly lodge to inevitably an abandoned eyesore ? until it's purchased and renovated top to bottom by London billionaire, Xavier Darling....