Sarah Blake Books in Order

Spending the summer of 1896 at a Maine coastal hotel, Maisie Thomas encounters drowned lovers, competing suitors, and unsettling stories from its elderly owner. Miss Grange's revelations draw the seventeen-year-old into a mystery connecting romance with the past.

In 1940, Massachusetts postmistress Iris withholds a letter while overseas broadcaster Frankie reports on war and refugees. Their responsibilities to deliver information become morally complicated as events connect a seemingly sheltered coastal town with Europe's escalating violence.

Three generations of the wealthy Milton family revolve around their private Maine island, where tragedy and exclusion leave enduring traces. Later descendants confronting its possible sale uncover silences linking their inherited privilege to prejudice and troubling choices in the past.