In the Pacific Northwest town of Franklin, Audrey Dixon volunteers for the local Search and Rescue department and serves as a high school advisor. She is haunted by the disappearance of her former best friend Janie, who vanished years ago without a trace. Her current focus is on locating the latest missing young woman, Meghan Vale. Relying on her excellent skills and instincts, Audrey believes that the Hill family property might contain critical clues to both Janie's and Megh

As 1968 approaches, Elizabeth "Baker" Phillips, a high school senior at the top of her class, is planning to attend Stanford University. She's her parents’ pride and joy.  The sexual revolution has arrived, with hippies advocating "free love." Yet despite the progress of the feminist movement, laws and opinions remain relatively unchanged. When Baker spends New Year's Eve at a concert in San Francisco with her older cousin, she meets a free spirit named Wiley and begins to ex

The story unfolds with the three Rubenstein sisters: Helen, 80, and Sylvia, 78, and the youngest, Jeanne, who is dying. As the family gathers, a seemingly trivial incident of competitiveness and jealousy over an apple cake sparks a feud between Helen and Sylvia. As the surviving sisters remain estranged, the everyday lives of the next generation of children and grandchildren continue. This includes Sylvia's son Richard, who is divorced and striving to co-parent his two daught

An intriguing part of New York City's history is a district known as "Book Row," which stretched for six city blocks along Fourth Avenue between Union Square and Astor Place. The area housed several dozen bookstores, mostly selling used books, such as the Arcadia Rare Bookshop, the fictional setting of this book. After their father's death, the three Applebaum sisters inherited Arcadia and devoted themselves to its continuation. Olivia, the oldest sister, specialized in rest