In A Hilltop in Tuscany, a widowed mother and her adult daughter are reunited after experiencing great changes in their own lives. Together in the beautiful landscapes of Tuscany, Liz and Mary reflect on the unexpected turns that life has brought them and search for deeper fulfillment.

A widowed duchess falls in love with a bookish gentleman, but the enemies that drove her from London threaten her new romance.

In the aftermath of her financier husband's suicide, Emma Shay Compton's dream life is shattered. Richard Compton stole his clients' life savings to fund a lavish life in NYC and, although she was never involved in the business, Emma bears the burden of her husband's crimes. She is left with nothing. So she goes home to Sonoma County. But starting over isn't easy, and Sonoma is full of unhappy memories, too. And people she'd rather not face, especially...

"Three women, haunted by the past and the secrets they hold. Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined..."--

Suddenly widowed at 35, Kate Mulligan inherits her great uncle's Pennsylvania fruit orchard and moves just outside Gettysburg to open a cider house, but upon arrival finds the body of the orchard manager and begins an investigation.

Madeline Deveridge is all too aware of the whispers behind her back, the rumors that she dispatched her husband to the next world and concealed her crime. But Madeline has a far more pressing problem than being called the Wicked Widow. She fears that she and her beloved aunt are being haunted!

Newly independent widow Emily Maxwell dreams of visits by grandchildren and mourns changes in her quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood before realizing an inner strength to pursue developing opportunities.

When struggling widow Rachel Boyd's cows grow diseased and threaten the lives of her sons, she is forced to seek the help of Rand Brookston, Timber Ridge's physician and reluctant veterinarian.