In the fictional beach community of Sugar Sands, folks live, love, laugh, and die. They also fight, invite trouble, and seek redemption. The people who inhabit this idyllic community make plenty of mistakes and sometimes grow as a result. Some characters recur, but each book stands alone. They can be read in any order.
Joy After Noon focuses on the second marriage of a widowed man whose new wife fears she’s being compared to the first. In this novel, Joy struggles to bond with, and parent, two teenage girls who try to run her out of the family.
Song of Sugar Sands centers around Peter O’Neil and Acadia Powers. It tells of their falling in love and the traumatic first year of their marriage, and of Acadia’s struggle to come to terms with issues of faith. In this book, the church in Sugar Sands is also going through growing pains, and struggling to deal with issues of change.
