Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.

At thirty-one, Ellen Barrett has already won a Pulitzer prize. Sadly, though, her skill as a journalist far surpasses her ability to sort out her troubled past, so she's less than eager to return to picturesque Petoskey, Michigan, for her beloved father's funeral. When she most needs comfort, her husband is distant and her siblings antagonistic — and the solace an old sweetheart offers is almost too much to resist. In the end, going home to the...

Thirteen-year-old Helicity, not a victim of a horrific tornado but a survivor, connects with a local meteorologist and other stormchasers who support her plan to become one of them.

Eighteen-year-old Bronwen has long felt that she was switched with another child at birth, and so although she loves Jared, she must decide if she is ready to be married or should, instead, live on her own first.

Determined to smooth things over with her mother before her impending nuptials, after her aunt reveals a startling secret, bride-to-be Lee McKinney vows to solve the decades-old mystery surrounding the apparent suicide of her mother's fiancé.

When someone murders party planner Julie Singletree and absconds with her computer that contains an e-mail list of professionals in the party food business, more attacks occur, and chocolate shop manager Lee McKinney, fearing that she will be the next one deleted off the list, sets a trap to catch the killer.

After the death of her beloved, intensely private mother, Sutton Douglas, leaving the Ozarks behind, heads to a magical Michigan resort town where she hopes to find answers to the lifelong questions she's had about not only her mother's past but her own place in the world.

After Lee and her aunt Nettie introduce the town of Warner Pier to their latest concoctions - chocolate frogs, fish, and lizards, they investigate the murder of Hershel Perkins, whose death is linked to Lee's boyfriend, in a humorous mystery filled with chocolaty goodness.

Moving to Michigan's Upper Peninsula to care for an aging family friend, Madeline Stone becomes involved in the lives of the small community and two octogenarian sisters who teach her valuable lessons about love and goodwill.

When fourteen-year-olds Wren and Darra meet at a Michigan summer camp, both are overwhelmed by memories from six years earlier when Darra's father stole a car, unaware that Wren was hiding in the back.