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Contents ( 51)
  1. Dedication
  2. Contents
  3. Part 1
  4. Bethany Bay
  5. One
  6. Two
  7. Three
  8. Four
  9. Five
  10. Six
  11. Seven
  12. Eight
  13. Part 2
  14. The Var
  15. Nine
  16. Ten
  17. Part 3
  18. Bethany Bay
  19. Eleven
  20. Twelve
  21. Thirteen
  22. Fourteen
  23. Part 4
  24. Bellerive
  25. Fifteen
  26. Sixteen
  27. Part 5
  28. Aix-en-Provence
  29. Seventeen
  30. Part 6
  31. The Var
  32. Eighteen
  33. Part 7
  34. Switchback
  35. Nineteen
  36. Twenty
  37. Twenty-One
  38. Epilogue
  39. Acknowledgments
  40. An Excerpt from THE OYSTERVILLE SEWING CIRCLE
  41. Prologue
  42. P.S. Insights, Interviews & More . . .*
  43. About the Author
  44. Meet Susan Wiggs
  45. About the Book
  46. Reading Group Guide
  47. Jane Green Interviews Susan Wiggs About Map of the Heart
  48. Extraordinary Praise for Susan Wiggs and Map of the Heart
  49. Also by Susan Wiggs
  50. Copyright
  51. About the Publisher

“I guess . . . you’re headed to your folks’ place?”

“They’re expecting me.” She felt a sense of dread, anticipating a barrage of welcome. Yet it was nothing compared to the situation she’d fled.

“That’s good.” He cleared his throat, his gaze moving over her, the crappy car stuffed with hastily packed belongings, the little kids in the back seat. Then he studied her face with a probing gaze. His eyes were filled with questions she was too exhausted to answer.

She remembered the way he used to know her every thought, could read her every mood. That was all so long ago, in an era that belonged to different people in a different life. He was a stranger now. A stranger she had never forgotten.

He went around to the rear of the car, where she’d left the hatchback wide open. His gaze flicked over the crammed interior—hastily stuffed luggage and gear, her prized single-needle sewing machine broken down in pieces to fit, her serger, boxes of belongings. He shut the door and turned to her.

“So you’re back,” he stated.

“I’m back.”

He looked in the car window. “The kids . . . ?”

Not now, she thought. The explanation was far too complicated to explain to someone she barely knew anymore. Right now she just needed to get home.

“They’re mine,” she said simply, and got back in the car.

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P.S. Insights, Interviews & More . . .*

About the Author

Meet Susan Wiggs

About the Book

Reading Group Guide

Jane Green Interviews Susan Wiggs About Map of the Heart

About the Author

Meet Susan Wiggs

SUSAN WIGGS is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than fifty novels, including the beloved Lakeshore Chronicles series and her most recent novel, the instant New York Times bestseller Family Tree. Her award-winning books have been translated into two dozen languages. A native of a small town in upstate New York, she now lives with her husband at the water’s edge on an island in Puget Sound, and in good weather can commute to her writers’ group in a twenty-one-foot motorboat. A former teacher and graduate of the University of Texas and Harvard, Susan is also an avid hiker, an amateur photographer, a good skier, and a cautious mountain biker—yet her favorite form of exercise is curling up with a good book. image

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