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When Billie Cooper receives a startling medical diagnosis just before a summer-long vacation, she decides to keep it secret. Her husband Derek is a Defense Department official immersed in the Vietnam war effort. Her two sons are backpacking through Europe. She cant burden them. She has to face the issue alone. She settles into a beautiful house on a hundred-foot-high cliff just south of Bar Harbor. With her husband often in Washington, D.C., Billie befriends a part-time cook named Lillian Moore.

Cape May, N.J. 1976 When NYC editor Audrey Taylor finalizes her divorce, it seems as if her entire world has collapsed around her. And when she inherits a run-down Victorian mansion in a decaying N.J. beach town, it only seems to get worse. At least, until she finds the treasure map. The Widow’s Walk is a tale of growth, self-discovery, and learning to appreciate all the good that life has to offer. A romance wrapped in a historical subplot, a mystery hidden in a centuries-old crime, it ties two unsuspecting people together to find a love that neither expected—which is far more precious...

East Berlin, 1961. Kirstin Beck is determined to escape to the West. She watches from her townhouse window as the border with West Berlin is closed and a barbed wire fence strung through the cemetery behind her house. With a grandmother in West Berlin who needs her, Kirstin knows she has to go. Tony Marino is an American writer living in West Berlin.

Kirstin Beck está decidida a escapar a Occidente. Desde la ventana de su casa adosada, a sus espaldas, una alambrada que cruza un cementerio, ve cómo cierran la frontera con Berlín Oeste, donde Tony Marino, un escritor norteamericano que allí trabaja, observa en la cercanía el progreso del levantamiento, al tiempo que ve a una atractiva mujer en su ventana. Kirstin sujeta una pizarra con ayuda para que este la vea, lo que los lleva a un plan, aunque difícil empresa, para que ella cruce la frontera.