Leda, a divorced middle-aged mother, spends time alone on the coast after her grown daughters move away, and finds herself wallowing in introspection as she watches, and eventually makes an acquaintance with, a young mother and daughter at the shore.

A grieving widow takes a solitary road trip to her late husband's favorite getaway on pristine coastal Maine, where she remembers their many happy years of family life, reevaluates the time before they met, and considers her future.

Ultimate Gift: A deceased billionaire leaves his spoiled adult grandson a series of odd tasks to perform in order to receive "the ultimate gift," with the resentful grandson having no idea what that might be. Ultimate Life: A billionaire with questionable priorities re-examines his life after discovering his grandfather's journal. Ultimate Legacy: An entitled young man with wanderlust must prove himself worthy of a new stipulation in his grandmother's...

Maintaining a vigil at the bedside of her sixteen-year-old comatose sister, Moira confesses the secrets and indiscretions that caused the coma-rendering accident, from Moira's resentment about her sister's birth to her deep-rooted insecurities and strained marriage.

"A moving meditation on the hidden, sometimes difficult topics we must consider to live an authentic life, from the New York Times bestselling author of To Shake the Sleeping Self. We aren't born into a self. It is created without our consent, built on top of our circumstances, the off-handed comments we hear from others, and the moments that scared us most when we were young. But in the busyness of our daily life, we rarely get the chance to think...