The Day Before Winter

The long-awaited new volume in Elisabeth Ogilvie's series of Bennett's Island novels rejoins Joanna Sorensen's family during the Vietnam era.

It is a time when Joanna, her husband, Nils, and several of her brothers have settled and raised their families on remote Bennett's Island.

It is also a time when new faces appear on their shore: two young men descended from island families come to live on the Island. Both arrive hoping to shed the traces of past mistakes. The conflicts that these newcomers bring to the close-knit island community force Joanna and the other islanders to wrestle with difficult questions of family loyalty, ethics, and the good of the community.