To Give and To Get
Summary
A feud erupts among two middle-aged sisters and their mother when the 65-year-old widow envisions a new future for herself. Trouble sparks when the headstrong older sister pushes their mother to move out of the family home and into a senior community.
As the sisters dig into their habitual family roles, even an emergency doesn’t change the unhealthy dynamic. Yet no one will get what she wants, unless they recognize what each contributes to the family triumvirate.
Home Repair
Summary
Over the course of one year, Rainey Whitaker pieces her life back together despite the over-zealous meddling of her book group, whose members plunge her into a dating scavenger hunt in an awkward competition with her best friend.
The recently divorced mother of two love-wracked teenagers delves into early 2000s technology, only to dredge up prospects such as Mr. Monosyllable and the Disastrous Hug Guy, while she pines for the one attractive guy she’s met offline.
As Rainey strives to fix toilets and salve broken hearts, including her own, she must first latch onto enough self-confidence and courage to rescue herself.
The Family Quilt
Summary
Under pressure from her boyfriend to move in together, Brooke escapes on a beach vacation, promising an answer when she returns home. But her attempt to run away takes her on a journey into the past, as she digs up buried secrets and assembles the complicated pieces of history creating THE FAMILY QUILT.
In intertwining stories—one set in the 1980s and the other in the 1960s—twenty-nine-year-old Brooke and her ten-year-old self each travel to the North Carolina coast. She calls on her two sisters for help but finds that alliances among the three are always shifting. Yet, she must navigate the hurt and love that thread through their family dynamics if she is to journey forward in love and life.