Up Island (Abridged)

From childhood, Molly Bell Redwine was taught amp;#34;family is everything.amp;#34; Yet, suddenly, she discovers that family can change without warning, when her husband of more than twenty years leaves her for a younger woman, her domineering mother dies, and her Atlanta clan scatters.

Feeling adrift and devastated, Molly takes refuge with a friend on Marthaamp;#39;s Vineyard, a temporary respite that becomes much more. As her stay up island widens the distance between herself and the past, Molly begins to become part of a stranger new worldamp;#8212;a world that offers healing, renewal, and an unexpected second chance at happiness.