From bestselling author Luanne Rice, a haunting and emotional short story, never-before released, and free to all readers. On the eve of a wedding by the edge of the sea, a once-in-a-lifetime storm sweeps through a family farm on the Connecticut Shoreline and sets in motion the events of The Night Before.

From bestselling author Luanne Rice—The Lemon Orchard is a captivating and sexy novel of love, both enduring and unexpected.

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From the beloved New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice comes The Silver Boat, a heartwarming yet heart-wrenching portrait of three far-flung sisters who come home to Martha’s Vineyard one last time to say goodbye to the family beach house. Memories of their grandmother, mother, and their Irish father, who sailed away the year Dar, the oldest, turned twelve, rise up and expose the fine cracks in their family myth—especially when a cache of old letters reveals enough truth to send them back to their ancestral homeland.

Passion and friendship get equal billing in Secrets of Paris, an entertaining love story, shaded with dark undertones, from the author of Crazy in Love. Lydie McBride, a photographer's stylist, and her architect husband Michael move to Paris while Michael, on a cultural exchange program, redesigns a room in the Louvre.

Thanksgiving week, and What Matters Most is out in trade paperback. I love the cover; it reminds me of Ireland and makes me wish I were walking on the Cliffs of Moher.

The novel picks up where Sandcastles lets off. It's a story about two people who've loved each other forever but live their lives apart. Writing the novel, I tried to capture that feeling of complete longing for something you can never have yet, at the same time, carry in your heart at all times.

I find it moving that the novel is coming out in time for Thanksgiving, one of my favorite holidays. "What Matters Most" is a title, but also an all-year-round question.

My family, friends, cats, nature, writing, and readers matter most to me. What matters most to you?

—Luanne

In bestselling author Luanne Rice’s unforgettable novel Sandcastles, the lives of one broken-hearted woman and her family are changed forever when one of her daughters brings back the man who left so many years ago to the family he’s always loved. Painter Honor Sullivan has made a life for herself and her three daughters–Regis, Agnes, and Cecilia–at Star of the Sea Academy on the magical Connecticut shore. Here she teaches art at the convent school’s beautiful seaside campus, over which Honor’s sister-in-law, mother superior Bernadette Ignatius, keeps a benevolent and watchful eye. No one could have foreseen the day rebellious Regis would come home with the stunning news that she was getting married. Nor could anyone have guessed how that sudden announcement would soon change all their lives forever.

A powerful novel of a mystery, a love affair, and a bond that cannot be broken set in a seaside town where miracles are made. On the first day of summer, Mara Jameson went out to water her garden–and was never seen again. Years after her disappearance, no one could forget the expectant mother.

At the forefront of this well-crafted story stands Cass, youngest and feistiest of the Keating sisters, a mother of three who enjoys hot sex in semi-public locations with husband Billy Medieros, her sweetheart since high school.

Anne Davis has returned to the house where she was raised, trading a seemingly charmed life jetting between her Manhattan penthouse and France for a harsh winter in a wind-whipped island off the New England coast.

A journey into the tender, unmapped territory that lies between mothers and daughters, and fathers and sons, in this mesmerizing new novel that travels into the past to find the key to a boundless future.

Is it true that old love never dies, that hearts can mend, that a secret revealed can change everything? Luanne spins a mesmerizing tale readers will long remember–the powerful story of a close-knit community grappling with a dark mystery, and of a woman reclaiming a love she believed lost a lifetime ago.

As lyrical and moving as the poetry of nature, Follow the Stars Home is a miracle of storytelling that will take your breath away. If words alone can dare us to confront our fears and to choose joy over sorrow, then Luanne's magnificent novel is a benediction and a call to celebrate our lives.

Coolly sophisticated and steadfastly single, Caroline Renwick has always been the sister everyone could count on. As she and Clea and Skye gathered at Firefly Hill, their childhood home, Caroline thought that they had all put the past behind them. But as summer gets under way, a mysterious man arrives—a man who has the power to bring it all back...

An entrancing story of love at first sight, the true meaning of family, and angels right here on earth. May’s own faith in true love was shattered when she was abandoned by the father of her child. Still, she finds joy in raising her daughter Kylie, a very special five-year-old who sees and hears things that others cannot. . .

The story of two sisters and the boy next door...In True Blue Luanne explores the powerful bonds that connect old friends, and the joy of life’s unexpected second chances. Returning to the Connecticut beach town at the center of many of her novels, she touches our hearts with a spellbinding story of a love lost--and saved.

Haunting and powerful, Safe Harbor is an unforgettable story of family bonds, love lost and found, and of a painter's unfolding vision of herself, as an artist -- and as a woman. Set on the timeless New England coastline that Luanne has made her own.