Threading the Needle — Marie Bostwick

In New York Times bestselling author Marie Bostwick's fourth book of her beloved Cobbled Court series, sisterhood creates the rich tapestries that encompass the past and the future. Threading the Needle finds two estranged friends reliving old memories, forging new ones and realizing it's possible to start over -- one stitch at a time.

The economic downturn has hit New Bern, Connecticut, and Tessa Woodruff's herbal apothecary shop, For the Love of Lavender, is suffering. So is her once-happy thirty-four-year marriage to Lee. They'd given up everything to come back to New Bern from Boston and start their business, but now they're wondering if they made the right decision. To relieve the strain, Tessa signs up for a quilting class at the Cobbled Court Quilt Shop, and to her surprise, rediscovers the power of sisterhood -- along with the childhood friend she thought she'd lost forever.

Madelyn Beecher left New Bern twenty years ago and never looked back. But when her husband is convicted of running a Ponzi scheme and she's left with nothing but her late grandmother's house, she is forced to return to the town she fled. Unfortunately, the cottage is in terrible shape. Madelyn's only hope is to transform it into an inn. But to succeed, she'll need the help of her fellow quilters, including the one friend she thought she'd never see again -- or forgive.