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An unforgettable story of love, acceptance, and tradition from author Anne Rivers Siddons. When Maude Chambliss first arrives at Retreat, the seasonal home of her husband's aristocratic family, she is a nineteen-year-old bride fresh from South Carolina's Low Country. Among the patrician men and women who reside in the summer colony on the coast of Maine, her gypsy-like beauty and impulsive behavior immediately brand her an outsider. She, as well as everyone else, is certain she will never fit in. And of course, she doesn't...at first. But over the many summers she spends there, Maude comes to cherish life in the colony, as she does the people who share it with her. Through wars, tragedies, and upheavals, Maude weathers the storms of a changing world, sustained by the fierce beauty of the Maine coast and the enduring bonds of family and friendship that define life in the colony.