Diane Chamberlain

Diane Chamberlain

Fifteen–year–old Andy Lockwood is special. Others notice the way he blurts out anything that comes into his mind, how he cannot foresee consequences, that he's more child than teenager. But his mother sees a boy with a heart as open and wide as the ocean.

Laurel Lockwood lost her son once through neglect. She's spent the rest of her life determined to make up for her mistakes, and she's succeeded in becoming a committed, protective parent – maybe even over protective. Still, she loosens her grip just enough to let Andy attend a local church social – a decision that terrifies her when the church is consumed by fire. But Andy survives... and remarkably, saves other children from the flames. Laurel watches as Andy basks in the role of unlikely hero and the world finally sees her Andy, the sweet boy she knows as well as her own heart.

But when the suspicion of arson is cast upon Andy, Laurel must ask herself how well she really knows her son and how far she'll go to keep her promise to protect him forever.

One afternoon, single mother Sara Weston says that shes going to the store and never returns.

In her absence, she leaves her teenage son alone with his damaged past and a legacy of secrets.

Keith Weston nearly lost his life in an act of arson. He survived but with devastating physical and emotional scars. Without his mother, he has no one to help him heal, no money, nothing to live for but the medications that numb his pain. Isolated and angry, his hatred has one tight focus: his half–sister, Maggie Lockwood.

Nineteen–year–old Maggie Lockwood spent a year in prison for the acts that led up to the fire. Now shes back home. But her release cannot free her from the burden of guilt she carries. She grew up with Keith Weston, played with him as a child and recently learned they share the same father.

Now the person Keith despises most is the closest thing he has to family until Sara returns.

If Sara returns

Early one morning, on the beach beside her North Carolina home, eleven-year-old Daria Cato receives an unbelievable gift from the sea–an abandoned newborn baby. When the infant's identity cannot be uncovered, she is adopted by Daria's loving family. But her silent secrets continue to haunt Daria and her family.

Now, twenty years later, Shelly has grown into an unusual, ethereal woman whom Daria continues to protect. But when Rory Taylor, a friend from Daria's past and now a television producer, returns to do a story on the mystery of Shelly's birth, something precarious shifts in the small village of Kill Devil Hills.

The more questions Rory asks, the more unsettled the tiny community becomes, as dark sins and closely guarded secrets begin to surface. Piece by piece, the mystery of summer's child is being exposed, and it's a mystery that no one involved is prepared to solve.

Together for the first time in one box set, the acclaimed and captivating trilogy of family saga, love and discovery, by New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain.

Keeper of the Light

When Annie O'Neill dies on Dr. Olivia Simon's operating table, she leaves behind three other victims. Alec O'Neill, who thought he had the perfect marriage. Olivia's husband, Paul, whose fixation on Annie is unshakable. And Olivia, who is desperate to understand the woman who destroyed her marriage. Now they are left with unanswered questions about who Annie really was. And about the secrets she kept hidden so well.

Kiss River

Separated by a continent from her child, Gina Higgins comes to Kiss River with little more than a desperate plan. She is determined that the historic lens of the lighthouse holds the key to her future, but in a recent storm it sunk to the bottom of the ocean. Her quest to raise it draws in Clay O'Neill, who lives in the old light keeper's house with his sister, Lacey. But the lighthouse holds a secret that none of them can anticipate.

Her Mother's Shadow

When Lacey O'Neill finally learns the shattering truth about the mother she's spent a decade emulating, the foundation of her life begins to crumble. Then her closest childhood friend dies, leaving her teenage daughter, Mackenzie, in Lacey's care, and Lacey unwillingly finds herself in the role of mother. Uprooted, Mackenzie hates her new home. But the person who could understand her best might be the one she resents most: Lacey.

There's no stronger power than a mother's love...

Eight–year–old Sophie Donohue just wanted to be like every other little girl. Which is why her mother, Janine, reluctantly agreed to let her go on the weekend camping trip with her Brownie troop. But when Janine arrives to pick up Sophie after the trip, her daughter is not with the others. Somehow, along the forested route from West Virginia, Sophie has disappeared.

But Sophie is no ordinary eight–year–old. She suffers from a rare disease, and Janine has recently enrolled her in an experimental treatment as a last effort to save her life – despite the vehement objections of her ex–husband, Joe. Without her medication, Sophie cannot survive long. All her mother's instincts tell Janine that Sophie is alive, but time is running out.

Deep in the Virginia forest, another drama unfolds. Sophie finds refuge in a remote cabin inhabited by Zoe, a woman who wants nothing to do with the child. Zoe is struggling to save her own daughter from the law, and Sophie's presence jeopardizes any chance of that happening. She is as determined to save her daughter as Janine is to save Sophie...and only one of them can succeed.

After a devastating hurricane hits the coast of North Carolina, Rebecca and Maya's husband Adam urge her to join them in the relief effort. But when Maya's helicopter crashes into raging floodwaters, there appear to be no survivors.

Forced to accept Maya is gone, Rebecca and Adam turn to one another, unaware that, miles from civilisation, Maya is injured and trapped with strangers she's not certain she can trust. Now, away from the sister she's always relied upon, Maya must find the courage to save herself– unaware that the life she knew has changed forever.

She lived a lie to keep her daughter.

In 1977, pregnant Genevieve Russell disappeared. Twenty years later, her remains are discovered and Timothy Gleason is charged with murder. But there is no sign of the unborn child.

CeeCee Wilkes knows how Genevieve Russell died, because she was there. And she also knows what happened to the missing infant, because two decades ago she made the devastating choice to raise the baby as her own. Now Timothy Gleason is facing the death penalty, and she has another choice to make. Tell the truth, and destroy her family. Or let an innocent man die in order to protect a lifetime of lies

I don't know how to tell you what I did.'The unfinished letter is the only clue Tara and Emerson have to thereason behind Noelle's suicide. Everything they knew about Noelle–her calling as a midwife, her passion for causes, her love for her family–described a woman who embraced life. But they didn't know everything.The unaddressed letter reveals a terrible secret... and a legacy of guilt thatchanges everything they thought they knew about the woman whodelivered their children. A legacy that will irrevocably change their ownlives– and the life of a desperate stranger– forever.

Torn by guilt and her impossible feelings for Liam, Joelle sets out to find help for Mara, no matter how unconventional the source. Her search leads her to California, and into the life of a woman shrouded in mystery. Carlynn Kling Shire is a healer and, according to Joelle's parents, saved Joelle's life when she was an infant. As Joelle is guided down an unfamiliar path by a woman with her own shocking secrets, she discovers that while some love is doomed, some love is destined to survive anything.