Dorothy Bodoin

When Linnet Shellwin moves into a picturesque Victorian house known as the Valentine Villa - it is as pink and lacy as Valentine card - she looks forward to a long and successful career teaching English in the town's middle school. Then, some members of her out-of-control ninth-grade class...

For Katherine Kale, who has recently returned to the United States after teaching overseas for years, Maple Creek, Michigan, is the perfect American town and the elegant blue Victorian on Walnut Street is the house of her dreams....

When Cressa Hannett is cut from the team on a space project in Texas, she comes home to Maple Creek, Michigan, determined to start all over again....

After arsonist Tag Noland torches her collie kennel, Susanna Kentwood's life begins to unravel. Her partner Amy betrays their friendship and accuses her of starting the fire, which throws a cloud over her reputation among her dog show friends. Her boyfriend stops calling her....