Böcker av Christine Nolfi

An antiques dealer and an enigmatic heiress embark on a revelatory friendship in a haunting and hopeful novel about family ties, secrets, and belonging by the bestselling author of A Heart Like Home.Cautious Claire Shelton, employee at a Maine antique shop, is surprised when she's recruited to catalog the treasures of reclusive Hanna Reeves, sole descendant of the state's most colorful shipbuilders and industrialists. Hanna's retreat from society years ago is just one of many mysteries behind the walls of Rose Hill, her fabled estate.Settling into Rose Hill's carriage house, Claire finds Hanna, nearing eighty, to be a still-formidable woman. She's demanding, judgmental, and protective of a mansion that is a veritable shrine to her ancestors. Then, diving into her work, Claire discovers a hidden library that is the stuff of legend among locals. An avid booklover, Claire is in heaven. More enthralling are Hanna's leather-bound family journals that open Claire up to the past--and soon forge a rich and unexpected bond between two very different women.A legacy is coming to light. All of Maine is talking. Because the revelations in the journals are enlightening enough to unite old friends, lovers, and families. And shocking enough to tear them apart forever.

"When Nova Doubeck is asked to foster two children, she can't say no. With her own childhood wounds healed by adoptive parents, Nova understands the rewards of a caring guardian--even an impermanent one. But nine-year-old Henry and his seven-year-old sister, Bella, are more than Nova bargained for."--

Notorious swindler and master of disguise Wish Kaminsky puts her daughter's romance at risk in this hilarious and heartwarming installment of the award-winning series. Wish is about to arrive in Liberty and that means trouble. Liberty is the town that open-heartedly welcomed her daughter. Recently engaged, Birdie has turned her life around-and Wish is the last person she wants to see. The books of The Liberty Series work as stand-alone novels you may enjoy in any order. Look for the other books in the series: Treasure Me, Second Chance Grill, Four Wishes, and The Tree of Everlasting Knowledge.

Linnie Wayfair knows just how many people are counting on her. But knowing doesn't make doing any easier. Everyone in Sweet Lake, Ohio, wants her to muster all her business sense and return the Wayfair Inn to its former glory. Her parents hope she'll forgive her scoundrel of a brother and reconcile the family. The eccentric Sweet Lake Sirens want her to open the inn--and her heart--to new possibilities. And her hilarious lifelong friends Jada and Cat are dropping none-too-subtle hints for her to ignite a romance with Daniel Kettering, the sexy attorney who's been pining for her for years. Now a shocking turn of events will open old wounds and upend the world Linnie has carefully built. She has to make changes quickly--and the results, though not entirely what she expected, might be what she's been yearning for all along.