Elisabeth Ogilvie

You can find love in the strangest places. Diana may have flunked all her classes but she had fun doing it. And now she's got an exciting summer planned. But Diana's mother has plans of her own. She ships Diana off to a broken-down farm to be tutored by an old friend. Diana is prepared for the most boring summer of her life. How will she survive it? But as soon as Diana arrives, sparks start flying. Mac and Josh Thornton, two great-looking cousins, are in the middle of a fight over the farm, and Diana has to choose sides. The most boring summer of Diana's life turns into the most exciting, but now she's still wondering how she will survive it. [text from book jacket]

Prompted by her late mother's few personal belongings and her own undying curiosity about her never-known father, twenty-seven-year-old Miriam Gould travels to Parmenter, Maine, where mayhem and mystery form a prologue to discovery.

At a very young age, David Greene, the guy with the incredible pitching arm, saw his dreams of playing in the majors almost fulfilled. But he never made it out of the minor leagues. Now, divorced, with a son he's not allowed to see, David returns to the shores of his hometown, the small Cape Cod hamlet of Saltash. There he meets Judith Silver, a beautiful, brilliant lawyer, and her husband, the eminent professor Gordon Stone - an imposing presence much older than Judith, a living legend now dying of cancer. These two prominent members of the community befriend, nurture, and eventually push David to run for political office. As David considers the proposition, he and Judith fall into a passionate affair. Into this explosive mix a young woman appears - a single mother at the end of her emotional rope. Crystal desperately needs David, and her son provides a seductive way into David's heart. Yet, caught between two women, and two volatile triangles of desire and devotion, David bears witness to a heartbreaking tragedy that seems as inevitable as the push and pull of ocean waves.

Geordie and Lucy question their decision to keep the family together after their parents' death when small things begin to sabotage family security such as the twins becoming a discipline problem and the family "brain" deciding to forego college to get married.

Riding through the early evening light, Mary Kate felt as if she were in a dream. The first sight of Rob transfixed her in one spot. He came to her and asked gently what the matter was. "I have to go home!" she wailed. He went perfectly white. Then he put his arms around her. "Mary, my heart. Don't cry." But there were tears in his own eyes.... Scotland isn't quite what Mary Kate expected when she first heard she'd be spending the summer there with her father. Her new friends are so different - especially Robin. Mary Kate doesn't know whether to feel bewildered by him or tender toward him. But slowly their love for each other grows - and by the time the summer is over all Mary Kate wants is to find a way to stay with Rob. She knows her father will never allow it, though. She knows he'll say Mary Kate is not old enough to make that decision, that she's too young to know.... [text from book jacket]

Val and Alix learn their family is heir to an unusual fortune - half an island off the coast of Maine. The girls are enchanted by the island, until strange things begin to happen. They hear howling dogs, but there are no dogs on the island. And, an old wooden Indian turns up in Alix's bed. Who's trying to scare them off? Mrs. Brancroft, the owner of the other half of the island? Or, her beautiful and mysterious housekeeper? Or, Alix's crush, Simon?

In 1927, Guy Rigby deserted his wife, embezzled $250,000 from his own bank and dashed off to France with Mary Ann Esmond, whom he eventually married, and who went on to become a renowned pianist. Now widowed, Mary Ann and her sister, Emma, a violinist, have boldly returned to Maine despite the whispers their presence continues to provoke. The talented ladies endear themselves to the narrator, novelist Eden Winter; she, however, is fated to discover their bodies, mutilated by an ax-wielding intruder. There are plenty of suspects: Robbie Mackenzie, who had vainly implored Mary Ann for piano lessons; mysterious newcomer Nick Raintree; Lucas Wolcott, a vicious drunkard whose physically abused daughter was staying with the sisters; or someone still seeking revenge for Guy's betrayal years ago. An ominous undercurrent of cruelty, death and violence runs throughout the storyan effective contrast to the town's tranquil beauty and clannish quaintness. The murderer's identity is a genuine shocker.

Unhappily married woman falls in love with a married man, and they experience mutual happiness until a shattering event occurs.