Katama Bay

A Manhattan socialite who loses everything. The mother she's resented for over twenty years. A return to Martha's Vineyard, where healing can finally begin. Janine Potter grew up on the other side of the tracks. Her mother, Nancy, struggled with just about everything-alcohol, men, money-and Janine made a pledge to herself that she would never be like her. At age nineteen, Janine met Jack Potter, the son of an oil tycoon, and never looked back. Her life became a series of cocktail parties and multi-million-dollar apartments all across the world, and rubbing elbows with celebrities. Slowly, memory of her mother faded, although the trauma never really did. Fast-forward to the present: Janine is forty-three, with two beautiful daughters, a perfect apartment, a handsome husband who betrays her beyond her wildest dreams. Soon, Janine is cast out from her picture-perfect life. She has nothing. Her mother, Nancy, who's gone through trials and triumphs of her own over the previous twenty years, sees Janine's very public devastation as an opportunity to reach out to the daughter she's missed so desperately over the years. "Come to Martha's Vineyard. Return to me. Let's heal together, after the shared trauma of our past." Janine has nowhere else to turn. For the first time in twenty-five years, her mother is her only answer. But the world that awaits her on Martha's Vineyard is beyond her wildest dreams. There are new friends, two step-sisters, beautiful ocean waters, and even a potential love interest : a summer she'll never forget. Can Janine and her mother find a way to heal the wounds of their past? Can Janine overcome the ultimate betrayal?

A Martha's Vineyard widow hasn't known happiness in a long, long time. Death has surrounded her, and hope has long-since left the building. What happens next is beyond her wildest dreams... Elsa Remington Steel pledged to love one man for the rest of her life. Aiden was a bright light, a wild personality, a beautiful soul. He was her husband and the father of her three wonderful children. Two years before, when they learned of his diagnosis, Elsa felt his death coming like a storm. After all, her brother had died at age ten, her mother had died when she was sixteen, and her father's health was on the decline. In Elsa's eyes, her world quickly fell apart. It was just expected. Now, her father is dead, her husband has been gone for over a year, but Elsa finds herself in the midst of beautiful renewal. She's just met her stepsister, Janine, who's pushed them to re-open the Katama Bay Wellness Lodge and Retreat Center, and Elsa has rediscovered love for her work, alongside her stepmother and dear friend, Nancy. But secrets from the past threaten to drag her and her sister, Carmella, back into the darkness. Can Elsa build love and life and beauty for herself again, after so much loss? Can she find a way to heal? Dive into book two of The Katama Bay Series, a heartwarming journey of motherly and sisterly love, healing, and promise for better days, all on the island of Martha's Vineyard, with its gorgeous ocean views, its endless summer days, and its bubbly cast of islanders.

The Remington sisters and Janine and Nancy Grimson unite for a final month of Martha's Vineyard summertime splendor as they fight to heal the broken women of Katama Lodge and Wellness Spa-and one another. As a child, Carmella Remington was boisterous, alive: always one to move too fast, laugh too long, and feel too deeply. She was the middle child of Neal Remington, the fraught one between Elsa and Colton. Until one day, Carmella made one of the biggest mistakes of her life-a mistake so wretched that it cost Colton's life. In the wake of this, Carmella's entire life changed forever. Her mother could no longer look her in the eye, resulting in even more trauma for Carmella, especially when her mother died a few years later. Carmella built up thick walls and allowed only one woman, her stepmother Karen, to penetrate them. Soon after, Elsa and Neal seemed to conspire against Carmella, which resulted in Neal divorcing Karen. Carmella was alone, yet again. Since then, Carmella has worked tirelessly at the Katama Lodge and Wellness Spa. She's a fantastic acupuncturist and takes pleasure in providing healing and wellness to women from all over the world. Naturally, she's never allowed such healing for her soul. She wouldn't even begin to know how. But this summer, everything has begun to change. Her father died six months before; Nancy, her current stepmother, along with Nancy's daughter, Janine, and even Elsa, Carmella's once-enemy, have joined together to make the Katama Lodge better than ever. And Carmella senses a shift in the love that swirls around them, one that allows her, finally, to begin the healing process she should have been allowed thirty years previously. Along the way, she just might find all the things her life has been missing-love, companionship, wealth, and loyalty. It's a new dawn for Carmella Remington. The past can stay in the past. It is time to build. Dive into book three of The Katama Bay Series: a heartwarming journey of motherly and sisterly love, healing, and promise for better days, all on the island of Martha's Vineyard with its gorgeous ocean views, endless summer days, and a bubbly cast of islanders.

Nancy Grimson Remington has spent the previous twenty years running from her past. Now, it's caught up to her, and she must face the truth. Ten years ago, Nancy Grimson met the handsome and successful Neal Remington in Bangkok, Thailand. It was a whirlwind romance-one that found her back on Martha's Vineyard, Neal's home, to become a stepmom to Elsa and Carmella, and help Neal with the Katama Lodge and Wellness Spa. Earlier this year, Neal passed away, and earlier this summer, her estranged daughter, Janine, came back into her life after a heartache of her own. It's been a whirlwind of changes, and Nancy continues to reel with pain and sorrow, even alongside her gratefulness. But summer is over. And with the end of summer, Nancy finds herself facing elements of her past that she thought she'd outrun. Meanwhile, autumn on Martha's Vineyard is glorious and blue-skied. Maggie, Janine's daughter and Nancy's granddaughter, marries the love of her life, and Janine's ex-husband and ex-best friend come to the island for the immaculate and very expensive "wedding of the century." Will Nancy find peace after decades of tumult? And what's next in her beautiful life? Will she be brave enough to carve out something new, or is everything over at fifty-nine? Dive into The Katama Bay Series, a heartwarming journey of motherly and sisterly love, healing, and promise for better days, all on the island of Martha's Vineyard, with its gorgeous ocean views, its endless summer days, and its bubbly cast of islanders.

It's a time for gratitude and forgiveness. Hope for a brighter tomorrow in the wake of tragedy. It's the Katama Bay Wellness Spa way. Six months ago, Janine Grimson learned her best friend had an affair with her husband of twenty years-at the engagement party of their oldest daughter, Maggie. In the wake of that horrific event, Janine rekindled her relationship with her mother, Nancy, moved full-time to Martha's Vineyard, and found herself stronger, better, and brighter than ever before. Now, news from Manhattan shakes her to the core. Something tragic has happened to her ex-husband, Jack Potter-the only man she's ever truly loved-just two weeks before Thanksgiving. The tragedy tears a hole through Janine's heart, especially as she watches her daughters deal with the pain. They never asked for any of this, and now Janine is left to pick up the pieces. What's more: Jack's tragedy results in a terribly lonely woman-a woman Janine had thought she would love all her life-long. Maxine Aubert, the woman who'd wronged her in every possible way. What's to be done about her? Dive into book five of The Katama Bay Series: a heartwarming journey of motherly and sisterly love, healing, and promise for better days, all on the island of Martha's Vineyard with its gorgeous ocean views, endless summer days, and a bubbly cast of islanders.