Low Country

Anny Butler is a caretaker, first for her own siblings, then as a director of a child welfare agency-but she's never truly had a family of her own. Then she meets and marries Lewis Aiken, an exuberant surgeon fifteen years her senior, and finds herself enfolded by his group of inseparable Charleston childhood friends.

The instant she meets the clan at the old beach house on Sullivans Island, Anny knows she's found her home and family. Even when bad things start happening, the friends cling together. But when they move to a new island retreat, Anny learns that everything is not as it seems-and that some loves carry a secret, terrible price.