When Captain Reynolds Macy returns from a six-year whaling voyage to find his plans for marriage thwarted, Daphne Coffin encourages him to return to his Quaker faith for solace.

After three years on a whaling voyage, Henry Macy returns to Nantucket to news that his grandmother has passed, bequeathing her vast fortune to him and his sister, Hitty. And it was truly vast. But Lillian Coffin was no fool. The inheritance comes with a steep cost, including when they should marry and whom—a Quaker in good standing, of course. But if they relinquish the inheritance, it all goes to Tristram Macy, their father's thieving business...

After the death of her parents and losing the family farm, Emily Harrison takes a job as a governess in Confederate Virginia, where she falls for Alexander Hunt, a secret Quaker leader of Rebel partisans who shares her antislavery beliefs.

"In a lonely cottage overlooking the windswept Maine coast, Wilder Harlow begins the last book he will ever write. It is the story of a sun-drenched summer of his youth, and of the killer that stalked the small New England town. And of the terrible tragedy that forever bonded him with his friends Nat and Harper in unknowable ways. Decades later, Wilder returns to the town in an attempt to recount that summer's events in his memoirs. But as he writes,...