Lydia Hoffman owns the shop on Blossom Street. In the year since it opened, A Good Yarn has thrived...and so has Lydia. A lot of that is due to Brad Goetz. But when Brad's ex-wife reappears, Lydia is suddenly afraid to trust her newfound happiness. Three women join Lydia's newest class. Elsie Beaumont, retired and bitterly divorced, learns that her onetime husband is reentering her life. Bethanne Hamlin is facing the fallout from a much more...

When Susannah Nelson turned eighteen, her parents sent her to school abroad. She said goodbye to her boyfriend, Jake--and never saw him again. She never saw her brother again, either; Doug died in a car accident while she was away. Now, at fifty, she finds herself regretting the paths not taken. Especially the chance to be with Jake..Long married, a mother and a teacher, she should be happy. But she feels there's something missing, although she doesn't...

Thirty-eight-year-old widow Anne Marie Roche, the owner of a successful Seattle bookstore, creates a list of twenty wishes, and, while acting upon her wishes, encounters an eight-year-old girl named Ellen who helps her complete her list--with unexpected results.

"On the anniversary of his beloved wife's death, Dr. Michael Everett receives a letter Hannah had written him. In it she reminds him of her love and makes one final request. An impossible request -- I want you to marry again. She tells him he shouldn't spend the years he has left grieving her. And to that end she's chosen three women she asks him to consider.

Returning to Ashuant Point to escape from the chaos of rapidly changing times, Helen Porter and her son Charlie soon discover that the Point has not remained unscathed from events unfolding beyond its borders.

"Wedding bells are ringing in the community that gathers around Seattle's charming knitting shop, A Good Yarn. Lauren Elliott has waited years for her boyfriend, Todd, to propose. Knowing she can't put her future on hold, Lauren prepares to make a bold choice. Newly married to her second husband, Max, Bethanne Scranton is blissfully in love, but her cunning ex will do anything to win her back. Lydia Goetz, too, is wonderfully happy with her husband,...