Cape Sanctuary

She knows what's best for everyone but herself... With a past like hers, Jessica Clayton feels safer in a life spent on the road. She's made a career out of helping others downsize — because she's learned the hard way that the less “stuff”, the better, a policy she applies equally to her relationships. But a new client is taking Jess back to Cape Sanctuary, a town she once called home...and that her little sister, Rachel, still does. The years apart haven't made a dent in the guilt Jess still carries after a handgun took the lives of both their parents and changed everything between them. While Jess couldn't wait to put the miles between her and Cape Sanctuary, Rachel put down roots, content for the world — and her sister — to think she has a picture-perfect life. But with the demands of her youngest child's disability, Rachel's marriage has begun to fray at the seams. She needs her sister now more than ever, yet she's learned from painful experience that Jessica doesn't do family, and she shouldn't count on her now. Against her judgment, Jess finds herself becoming attached — to her sister and her family, even to her client's interfering son, Nate — and it's time to put everything on the line. Does she continue running from her painful past, or stay put and make room for the love and joy that come along with it?

From the beloved bestselling author of Season of Wonder and The Cliff House comes a poignant and uplifting novel about forgiveness, family and all the complications-and joy-that come with it As the older sibling to identical twins Violet and Lily, Cami Porter was always the odd sister out. The divide grew even wider when their parents split up-while the twins stayed in Cape Sanctuary with their free-spirited mother, Rosemary, fourteen-year-old Cami moved to LA with her attorney father. Nearly twenty years later, when Cami gets the terrible news that Lily has drowned saving a child's life, her mother begs her to return home and untangle the complicated estate issues her sister left behind. Navigating their own strained relationship, Cami readjusts to the family and community she hasn't known for decades, including the neighbor who stands in the way of her late sister's dream, while Violet grieves the loss of her twin and struggles to figure out who she is now, without her other half, as the little girl Lily saved pulls her back into the orbit of the man she once loved. With poignancy and heart, RaeAnne Thayne once again delivers her charming signature blend of warmth, wit and wisdom.