Dear friends:

As many of you know after finding a character accidentally renamed in my Trinity Harbor trilogy, I am very much a right-brain writer with a terrible tendency to lose track of such pesky little things as names. Imagine, then, the challenge of creating a whole new world...and then trying to keep everyone straight.

Even so, I'm so excited to be welcoming you to Chesapeake Shores and the completely dysfunctional and complicated O'Brien family. Kicking off with THE INN AT EAGLE POINT, this new series captures everything I love about family dynamics, romance and the kind of small towns in which we all wish we lived.

As the oldest of five siblings, Abby O'Brien Winters took her role as surrogate mother seriously when her parents divorced, especially when it came to Jess, her youngest sister. So when Jess's dream of renovating The Inn at Eagle Point is threatened by a bank foreclosure, financial whiz Abby comes home to Chesapeake Shores to set things right.

Abby's exactly the kind of take-charge woman that Jess needs, but her bossiness grates and threatens their strong bond as sisters. Add in the complicated relationship each of them has with their father, famed architect Mick O'Brien and tension abounds.

Unfortunately, that's the least of what Abby faces as she tries to save the day, because her old love, Trace Riley, stands squarely between her and her goal of saving the inn. See what I mean about a world of complications? And this is just the start of things. There will be more about the O'Briens when we return to Chesapeake Shores next month for Bree's story in FLOWERS ON MAIN and then again the following month for Kevin's return to town in HARBOR LIGHTS.

I hope you'll fall in love with all the O'Briens and with this town on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay in one of my very favorite parts of the world. Best of all, I'm certain no characters have changed names between books. Well, pretty sure, anyway.

All good wishes,
Sherryl Woods
SherryWoods.com