All novels should have such an auspicious beginning. I must thank my literary agents, Meg Ruley and Annelise Robey of the Jane Rotrosen Agency, and my publishing team: Dan Mallory, Liate Stehlik, Lynn Grady, Brian Murray, Tavia Kowalchuk, Pamela Jaffee, Carrie Bloxson, and their associates at HarperCollins. Then there’s the home team—Willa Cline and Cindy Peters, keeping me alive online. And as ever, the brain trust—my fellow writers Elsa Watson, Sheila Roberts, Lois Faye Dyer, Kate Breslin, and Anjali Banerjee—whose generosity knows no bounds. Special thanks to Marilyn Rowe and her eagle-eyed proofreading skill.
And finally, I end where I began—with a sweet, cherished memory of my father, me tucked in his lap, surrounded by his comfortable smell of old wool and pipe smoke, reading Go, Dog. Go!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
SUSAN WIGGS is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than fifty novels, with her books in print in thirty countries. A native of a small town in upstate New York, she now lives with her husband at the water’s edge on an island in Puget Sound, and in good weather can commute to her writers’ group in a twenty-one-foot motorboat. A former teacher and graduate of the University of Texas and Harvard, Susan is also an avid hiker, an amateur photographer, a good skier, and a cautious mountain biker—yet her favorite form of exercise is curling up with a good book.
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ALSO BY SUSAN WIGGS
CONTEMPORARY NOVELS
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Home Before Dark
The Ocean Between Us
Summer by the Sea
Table for Five
Lakeside Cottage
Just Breathe
The Goodbye Quilt
THE BELLA VISTA CHRONICLES
The Apple Orchard
The Beekeeper’s Ball
THE LAKESHORE CHRONICLES
Summer at Willow Lake
The Winter Lodge
Dockside
Snowfall at Willow Lake
Lakeshore Christmas
The Summer Hideaway
Marrying Daisy Bellamy
Return to Willow Lake
Candlelight Christmas
Starlight on Willow Lake
HISTORICAL ROMANCES
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The Lightkeeper
The Drifter
The Mistress of Normandy
The Maiden of Ireland
THE TUDOR ROSE TRILOGY
At the King’s Command
The Maiden’s Hand
At the Queen’s Summons
CHICAGO FIRE TRILOGY
The Hostage
The Mistress
The Firebrand
CALHOUN CHRONICLES
The Charm School
Halfway to Heaven
Enchanted Afternoon
A Summer Affair
CREDITS
Cover art and design by Alan Dingman
Background photographs © Shutterstock
COPYRIGHT
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
FAMILY TREE. Copyright © 2016 by Susan Wiggs. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
FIRST EDITION
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EPub Edition AUGUST 2016 ISBN 9780062425478
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