Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) -- Fiction

While Kate pens an evocative historical novel based on family journals, her neighbor, Emily, flees a volatile relationship to an island in the Adirondacks where she, Kate, and Kate's mother, Birdie, face the consequences of their pasts.

A romance between two old friends reunited after 10 years apart.

A letter home -- Mud -- Searching... -- Driving home for Christmas -- The catch of the day -- Breakdown -- Life's a journey -- Decisions -- Ice fishing -- Snowy Mountain -- The last patrol.

Remarrying several years after the death of her first husband, Isabel Green finds her new marriage a difficult one, and she struggles to make it succeed while coping with her growing committment to her job as an environmental advocate.

Jane Whitefield helps people disappear by giving them a new identity--new appearance, new social security card--and her clientele ranges from bankrupt businessmen to fleeing wives. On this occasion, things backfire and she must resort to her Native American talents to track a dangerous customer she helped disappear.