Winter Storms

The Quinns of Nantucket have come through some rough seasons, and for once the news is mostly good. Mitzi is back running the household after a year away. Patrick is about to leave prison. Kevin has a successful new business and is ready to marry Isabelle. There is also hopeful word about Bart, who has been captured by enemy forces in Afghanistan.

Troubles still linger in the family. Kelley has recently come through a health scare. Jennifer cannot fully shake her dependence on the drugs she leaned on while Patrick was jailed. Ava is still torn between two lovers and has managed the situation with limited success.

Christmas is the holiday that gathers the Quinns, and this year the family plans to hold Kevin and Isabelle's wedding at the inn. As the date nears, a once-in-a-century blizzard moves toward Nantucket and threatens to keep family members away from the place and the people they love most.

This is a family drama with an ensemble cast, set over the winter holidays. The tone mixes warmth with domestic upheaval, and the storm turns up the pressure on every household problem at once. Readers get a seasonal story about homecoming, with a wedding and a blizzard driving the plot.