Jacqueline Sheehan

The case of a lost little girl forces a child services worker to confront her own past in the New York Times bestselling author's "compelling page-turner" (Publishers Weekly).
Though she loves her job at Portland, Maine's child services agency, Delia Lamont is feeling burned out. In fact, it's gotten bad enough that she's ready to leave the job and start a seaside bakery with her sister. But then a call comes in: a five-year-old...

Peaks Island, Maine, vibrates with its own special magic, a unique flow to life that knits together the small community that calls it home. The people, the animals, and even the houses have a charm and personality all their own. Just ask Rocky Pelligrino. Devastated by her husband Bob's sudden death, she found hope thanks to a relentlessly loyal black Lab named Cooper. Warm friends and a new job--as the island's animal control warden--have helped...

"Rocky's husband Bob was just forty-two when she discovered him lying cold and lifeless on the bathroom floor, and Rocky's world changed forever. Quitting her job, chopping off all her hair, she leaves Massachusetts, reinventing her past and taking a job as Animal Control Warden on Peak's Island, a tiny speck off the coast of Maine and a million miles away from everything she's lost... Rocky, a quirky and fallible character, discovers the healing...