When Malcolm Gaines asks his attorney to prepare his will, he resurrects the long-buried secret behind a tragedy at Chatham School, which destroyed lives and shattered a quiet community.

"Apple orchard owner Meg Corey is finally feeling settled into her new life in Granford--she's made friends, and her relationship with Seth Chapin is heating up--when her old Boston coworker Lauren Converse comes barreling into town, running the Congressional campaign for a former hometown football hero. But Meg doesn't have time to worry about why Seth seems reluctant to back Lauren's campaign when her neighbor, local dairy farmer Joyce Truesdell,...

After discovering an early-nineteenth-century silk sampler embroidered with apple trees and names she doesn't recognize, Meg Corey is plagued by a series of small, but dangerous, mishaps, which forces her to unravel the mystery surrounding the sampler.

Haven Harbor is an authentic coastal Maine town, which makes it the perfect location for a new film production. But now it's become the scene of a crime when the director is killed. Meanwhile, a local woman's tragic story about a true love lost at sea, which originally inspired the film, may lead to murderous revelations from long ago.