When Annie Dawson finds a bundle of old letters in the attic of Grey Gables, the lovely Victorian home she has inherited from her grandmother, she feels a rush of nostalgia for the days she spent in Stony Point, Maine, as a child, and for her best childhood friend Susan Morris. Annie had saved these letters and brought them back to Stony Point to share with Susan, but where is Susan now? Annie’s friends in the Hook and Needle Club have conflicting stories,but Susan is definitely not in Stony Point. Annie takes up the search for Susan, and as she digs deeper, she is drawn into a frightening game of hide and seek with strangers who threaten Annie’s life and the lives of her friends.

A Stitch in Time, home of the Hook and Needle Club, is in trouble.”Progress,” in the form of a fast-food restaurant, is landing right down the middle of Stony Point’s quaint downtown landscape. Annie Dawson and her friends are running out of ideas to help the shop’s owner, Mary Beth Brock, fend off the wolf at the door. The only solution is to raise money and raise it fast.

The key to the salvation of A Stitch in Time seems to be the one Annie found in a broken vase from her grandmother’s attic at Grey Gables. That key is the first clue that takes Annie and her friends back to the Civil War and an ill-fated love between Mary Beth’s great-great-grandmother and a young soldier. But when an insistent collector wants more of Mary Beth’s treasured antiques – and when her home is burgled – Annie begins to suspect that their mystery is tied to more than a coded love letter from the 1860s.

Annie Dawson’s discovery of a diary in the attic of Gray Gables has set her on a mission. The diary reveals a poignant love story from World War II, a story cut short when young Peter Lambert goes off to the European Theater, leaving his young girlfriend, Lilly Pryce, with a promise. He will come back to her. But that promise is shattered when Peter’s mother receives notice from the War Department that Peter is missing and presumed dead while on a mission behind enemy lines.

But Annie wants to know more. Did Lilly find love after the loss of Peter? Where is she now? How did her diary, love letters and photographs end up in Annie’s grandmother’s attic? And, most important of all, can love once lost become love found again?

How could those simple words come to haunt Annie Dawson and her friends in Stony Point, Maine? But when Annie discovers a will from 1920 in the attic of her home,Grey Gables, the document sets up a series of mysterious twists and turns that threaten the livelihood and legacy of Ian Butler, the mayor of the seacoast town and Annie’s love interest.

According to the newly found will, Paul Butler had disinherited Ian’s great-grandfather and left all of his estate to a Mayfield grandson. The will was sewn into the lining of an old purse and had never been probated. Why? Had the Butler family purposefully hidden it to ensure their continued ownership of the lucrative lumber mill? And will Annie’s discovery spoil the growing love between her and Ian?