Yorktide, Maine Books in Order

Lonely widow Sandra Pennington turns her big Yorktide house into a summer boarding arrangement for three women seeking change. As Mary, Patty, and Amanda settle in, shared dinners, small conflicts, and new opportunities help all four housemates examine aging, independence, and how friendship can remake a life at any stage.

In Yorktide, practical widow Bonnie Ascher has kept the crumbling family home going while her glamorous sister Carol built a design career in New York. When Carol announces she is moving back into Ferndean House, old resentments and long-held secrets surge, challenging what family and home really mean.

Best friends Amy Latimer and Hayley Franklin take nanny jobs in the wealthy summer enclave of Ogunquit to earn money and grab some freedom. Under very different employers, they confront class tensions, family secrets, and romantic temptation, testing their friendship and their ideas about the futures they want.

Still shattered by the accident that killed her husband and younger daughter, Frieda Braithwaite returns to Yorktide with her teenage daughter Bella for one healing summer. Among old neighbors and new acquaintances, both mother and daughter slowly confront grief, guilt, and the possibility of a gentler life ahead.

Six years after her husband left, Nell King has made a modest house in Yorktide a true home for her two almost-grown daughters. As what may be their last Christmas together approaches and an old love returns to town, Nell must reconsider who she is beyond being a mother.

Every March, Verity Peterson stands on Ogunquit Beach and sets a message in a bottle adrift for the infant daughter who vanished sixteen years ago. When her child, now a wary teenager renamed Marni, is suddenly sent to live with her in Yorktide, both struggle to untangle lies, anger, and fragile hope.

At twenty-five, Poppy Higgins moves back to Yorktide to care for her younger sisters after their father's death, trading Boston independence for small-town responsibility. As she stumbles through parenting Daisy and Violet and befriends mysterious newcomer Evie, Poppy learns how grief, loyalty, and second chances can reshape a family.

Sensible sixteen-year-old Sarah Bauer shocks everyone in Yorktide when she announces she is pregnant. As Sarah, her best friend Cordelia, and their families absorb the news, Sarah's mother gathers local women to stitch a baby quilt, and the slow work of piecing it together mirrors the mending of strained relationships.

In the seemingly idyllic town of Yorktide, next-door neighbors Jane Patterson and Frannie Giroux have raised their daughters as inseparable best friends. After Rosie becomes the target of relentless bullying and Meg, terrified of being dragged down too, makes a devastating choice, both families must confront blame, forgiveness, and how to move forward.

Larchmere, the sprawling Ogunquit beach house, has always anchored the McQueen siblings' lives. When their widowed father announces plans to remarry and perhaps leave the property to his much younger fiancée, Tilda and her brothers and sister return for one tense summer that exposes old rivalries and unexpected loyalties.