Jake Michaels came of age in the late 1970s. After the tragic death of his girlfriend, Jake joins the Army to escape his grief.
Friday and Freddy share the long-delayed words she's waited 37 years to hear.
A divorced man wins the lottery and moves to Buzby Beach to spend his remaining days enjoying the sun, sand, sea, and writing the book he always wanted to write. Then he meets someone who intrudes on his plans for solitude.
Garrison's dad opens up about Friday, how he loved her, and the night she died.
A divorced man wins the lottery and moves to Buzby Beach to spend his remaining days enjoying the sun, sand, sea, and writing the book he always wanted to write. Then he meets someone who intrudes on his plans for solitude.
A family feud erupts when a family from the dodgy part of the city moves to a neighborhood in a small town and their kids show no respect for anyone or anything, which is just how their psychopath of a mother likes it.
A divorced man wins the lottery and moves to Buzby Beach to spend his remaining days enjoying the sun, sand, sea, and writing the book he always wanted to write. Then he meets someone who intrudes on his plans for solitude.
Garrison Kaylor inherited a house on Buzby Beach from his grandparents. Little did he know he was also inheriting a ghost. Why is Friday trapped in Garrison's back yard, and how can he set her spirit free?
So, you want teachers back in the classrooms. Then maybe you should put them at the head of the line for vaccines.
The first in a series about my life as an educator past and present.
Garrison Kaylor inherited a house on Buzby Beach from his grandparents. Little did he know he was also inheriting a ghost. Why is Friday trapped in Garrison's back yard, and how can he set her spirit free?
A divorced man wins the lottery and moves to Buzby Beach to spend his remaining days enjoying the sun, sand, sea, and writing the book he always wanted to write. Then he meets someone who intrudes on his plans for solitude.
It's Wil's first day of 4th-Grade at a new school in a new town. His parents dropped him off before going to their new home, so Wil didn't even know where he lived. If he hadn't met Abby, the boy would have been totally lost.
Laurel spends the night in one of Garrison's guest rooms.
A divorced man wins the lottery and moves to Buzby Beach to spend his remaining days enjoying the sun, sand, sea, and writing the book he always wanted to write. Then he meets someone who intrudes on his plans for solitude.
Garrison Kaylor inherited a house on Buzby Beach from his grandparents. Little did he know he was also inheriting a ghost. Why is Friday trapped in Garrison's back yard, and how can he set her spirit free?
A divorced man wins the lottery and moves to Buzby Beach to spend his remaining days enjoying the sun, sand, sea, and writing the book he always wanted to write. Then he meets someone who intrudes on his plans for solitude.
Paige wants to learn to sail. Mack has a sailboat.
Garrison Kaylor inherited a house on Buzby Beach from his grandparents. Little did he know he was also inheriting a ghost. Why is Friday trapped in Garrison's back yard, and how can he set her spirit free?
Dean believes he's dreaming when he wakes up in a room not his own, with a woman who is not his wife, and where everyone is calling him, J. Thinking he is bound to wake up soon, Dean decides to go with the flow of the dream and see where takes him before he wakes up. But what if he's already awake?
Mark is home on leave and drops by the bar his grandfather, a retired police captain owns and meets Sara, the new bartender. Before they can become better acquainted, the police scanner blares out the news of an officer down.
When Stephanie sent Pete a "Dear John" letter after going away to college, Pete quit school and joined the Army. Now, his hitch is finished and he's headed home. It's been 7 years since he last saw Stephanie. Then, she suddenly shows up in his kitchen. Is she seeking forgiveness or a reckoning?
A divorced man wins the lottery and moves to Buzby Beach to spend his remaining days enjoying the sun, sand, sea, and writing the book he always wanted to write. Then he meets someone who intrudes on his plans for solitude.
Jack, a high school teacher, received the call informing him of his wife's death on the highway nearly five months ago. When school ended, Jack sold their home, retired from teaching, and moved into the house his aunt left him on Buzby Beach. How old is too old to start over? Jack needs the answer.
Garrison Kaylor inherited a house on Buzby Beach from his grandparents. Little did he know he was also inheriting a ghost. Why is Friday trapped in Garrison's back yard, and how can he set her spirit free?
A divorced man wins the lottery and moves to Buzby Beach to spend his remaining days enjoying the sun, sand, sea, and writing the book he always wanted to write. Then he meets someone who intrudes on his plans for solitude.
Jack received the call about his wife's death on the highway nearly five months ago. When school ended, Jack left the life they had and moved into the house his aunt left him on Buzby Beach. How old is too old to start over? Jack needs the answer.
Garrison Kaylor inherited a house on Buzby Beach from his grandparents. Little did he know he was also inheriting a ghost. Why is Friday trapped in Garrison's back yard, and how can he set her spirit free?
A divorced man wins the lottery and moves to Buzby Beach to spend his remaining days enjoying the sun, sand, sea, and writing the book he always wanted to write. Then he meets someone who intrudes on his plans for solitude.
Marc thought he'd spend a solitary week camping at New River State Park until he met Veronica.
Allysa greets Susan and Mort at the end of Susan's first mission with a message for Mort from the BOSS.
Garrison's father finally comes face to face with Friday.
Susan meets Ahn Su and Gabe
Garrison informs his father that he knows about Friday and what allegedly happened.
Susan shows Mort that she's qualified for the job the hard way.
Garrison's father shows up on Buzby Beach, and it's not a happy reunion.
Mort and Susan shoot their way back to her friends.
There's a new guy in history class, and he's sitting in Delaney's seat.
Mort continues on his mission of collecting souls for hell and hints to Susan who he works for as he does.
Garrison's Spanish teacher provides the second unpleasant surprise of the day.
Mort is sent to recruit a new collector, but to do so, he must rescue her friends.
Garrison's tennis class partner is an unexpected, and not entirely pleasant surprise.
Laurel's argument with her sister leaves Garrison with a conundrum.
Mort completes his mission and winds up sitting in the bar from CHEERS, drinking a beer with the Angel of Death.
The skies clear and the friends decide to forego swimming in the rain chilled water of the pool. They opt instead for dinner at Denver's. It's a decision that they may come to regret.
Mort confronts the teacher and learns there's more to the story.
Four friends hunker down in Garrison's family room to wait out a old-fashioned Carolina thunderstorm.
Mort gets a new mission, less direct than most, and a new job as a high school custodian.
Laura tries to reconcile what she saw with what she knows to be real.
Garrison and Laurel, armed with new information, challenge Friday to tell the truth about why she haunts Garrison's pool.
Is this feeling growing between Owen and Kenzie real, or a fleeting infatuation?
Garrison and Laurel have lunch at the hospital with Dr. Armstrong, Garrison's mother. While Dr. Armstrong knows little about Friday, she springs some other shocking news on Garrison.
An accident on the highway tests Owen's skills as an emergency medical first responder.
Morning brings some insight and a new ally in Garrison's search for the key that is the mystery of Friday.
Garrison finds an article from 30 years ago and thinks it may be part of the puzzle that is Friday.
There's a reason airborne medics don't like night jumps.
Owen stops by Jasper's Diner for dinner on his way back to Ft Bragg only Kenzie has already left for NC State.
Devastation comes to a young heart.
Owen pays a visit to LT Abernathy. It's when he checks his phone that his weekend prospects brighten.
Mark learns the identity of the Malibu's driver, but not why the man is watching his neighbor. Or is it Mark the PI is keeping an eye on?
Owen is having lunch with his friends Braxton and Kari when Braelyn shows up. The two of them go for a walk and Braelyn confesses her feelings for Owen.
There's a reason you should always tell the one you love that you love them.
A young man is bow hunting in the icy swamp and has to track his wounded quarry over the thin ice.
Mark has lunch among statues and paintings of pirates, real and fictional, at the Pirates' Cave. On his way home, he spots a stalker he thinks is eyeing Cybil and her daughter.
Jack's parents show up for his ice cream social date with Georgia.
Braelyn's visit leaves Owen with a conundrum. In high school, she kept him firmly in the Friend Zone. Now, she was acting like she wanted more from him than friendship.
An argument, the silent treatment, and two stubborn hearts. Who will be the one to come to their senses first?
A boy and a girl don't always agree on the best way to handle things. When the question is how to handle a bully, things can get ugly quickly.
Jack finds a way to pass the time until joining Georgia at the ice cream social.
Telling your parents that your in love can be tough when you've been best friends your whole lives.
Friday appears again. Garrison calls Office Langstrom, Together, they investigate the gate Friday keeps disappearing through.
Teen life in the summer: Part time jobs, hanging out on the beach, drive-thru fast food, and a love the type of which only happens to the young.
When your mother blames you for the problem when you're the one who stopped to help.
Corie interrupts Jack's lunch at the Beach Cone.
Owen and Ben meet with Owen's Uncle Michael Lanier (of the River Dream Trilogy). Owen learns from Michael the state of his inheritance from his later mother's estate.
Will and Mari have been best friends forever. As teens, their friendship grows to be something more. But not all is paradise for the young couple. Will they get their happily ever after, or will it be torn from them?
Garrison and Laurel have their first real date, lunch and a movie before she goes to work at Denver's Franks and Fries.
Owen and Ben head to the Beach Cone for lunch and run into Owen's high school friend, Sean O'Larrity.
Garrison decides he needs to talk to Office Langstrom about Friday.
Nathan joins Mort in Mort's bar and meets Alyssa.
Wanda takes drastic measures to show Jack just how much she wants to be the new woman in his life.
Mark hadn't gone to the beach hoping to meet a woman, but when Cybil introduced herself, talking to her seemed like the courteous thing to do.
Friday makes an appearance after Garrisons friends leave, but she soon disappears in a huff. Garrison keeps his late night snack date with Laurel at Denver's Dogs and Fries.
Wanda convinces Jack to let her hang out by his pool while he waits for a furniture delivery.
Mark hears from his older brother with whom he has a contentious relationship.
Owen finds an Facebook friend invitation on his breakfast receipt. When he gets to Buzby Beach, there's a warm, heartfelt reunion with his father, Ben.
Ren finally realizes who it is his heart really wants.
Breakfast with Wanda at The Crabby Stack
Laurel leaves for work, but Calvin and Mariah stay for pizza.
Taylor and Ren go for a drive of discovery through the lakes region.
Owen, to his father's disappointment, chose becoming an Army medic over going to college. Now he's on his first trip home since leaving for basic training.
Leslie leaves her ring on the table and storms off. A drunken Ren finds a place to spend the night.
An unexpected and unwelcome guest arrives at Plymouth State.
Garrison invites his friends over for pizza and some time in the pool.
Leslie and Ren travel to visit their parents. Leslie's step-dad is less than thrilled with their news. Ren's folks take it in stride.
Delaney apologizes to Garrison and hopes they can still be friends.
An engagement and a ring.
Ren begins dating Leslie and things take off quickly.
Mark begins his new routine with a run on the beach, breakfast, and then wonders what to do with the rest of his day.
As if kissing Laurie and sleeping with Taylor wasn't enough, Ren winds up asking Leslie out on a date, all in less than 24 hours.
Laurel meets Garrison for breakfast and all goes well until Delaney shows up.
Several girls are drawn to Ren's southern drawl and charm, but which northern girl will turn out to be THE ONE. How will this Buzby Beach Boy fair in New Hampshire's chill autumn air?
A puzzling text from Delaney before bed. Breakfast with Laurel in the morning.
It's Saturday morning. Mark retired from the Army the day before. The nightmare his last combat mission left him awakens him before sunrise. Not the way Mark hoped to begin the new chapter in his life.
Garrison goes in search of a quick meal and finds more than he bargained for.
Friday makes another uninvited but not unwelcome visit to Garrison's pool and the two introduce themselves.
Garrison went to the tennis match more to prove Delaney wrong about doubting he'd show. The game, if not the girl, captured his interest.
Garrison debates telling his friends about Friday.
Garrison's father, the lawyer, wants the boy to follow in his footsteps. His mother, the doctor, wants him to choose his own path as long as that path leads to a scientific career. Parents, huh?
Garrison Kaylor inherited a house on Buzby Beach from his grandparents. Little did he know he was also inheriting a ghost. Why is Friday trapped in Garrison's back yard, and how can he set her spirit free?
In the summer of 2012, Wolf Spiders declared war on my family with a sneak attack on my oldest son while he was working in the yard clearing brush. While the war has been waged on a low scale with few active engagements in the years since, this summer the Wolf Spiders have stepped up their offensive
Rick lost both legs below the knee in the war. He recovered and was a successful restauranteur on Buzby Beach. Then one night a voice from the past showed up at his bar.
Marissa, a girl from a small coastal town in eastern NC, and David, a boy from the lakes region of NH, meet at Spanaway Lake in western Washington State where he's a soldier and she attends college.
A young man spends a night on a sandbar and dreams of a girl he thinks he can never be with.
Gabe brings Mort a very special collection mission.
Wanda accompanies Jack to breakfast at the Crabby Stack.
Gabriel shows up with a complicated mission for Mort, and the complication is more emotional than procedural.
Mort's first mission is to go after a drunken husband who deserves every bit of what is about to happen to him.
Wanda shows up in Buzby Beach unannounced and looking to send Jack a clear message. Will Jack be in a receptive mood?
A picnic dinner, a walk on the beach, making another date, and a promising goodnight.
Jack met Georgia for an innocent cup of coffee, more to make his mother happy than for any other reason. A date for a picnic dinner was not what he expected to leave the Parisian Bean with that morning.
Mort accepts that he's in Purgatory and that he's been chosen as a Soul Collector. Now he wants to know just what it is he's supposed to do next.
Mort awakens to find himself in a late 19th Century cabin sitting across from Hank and wondering where he is and how he got there.
Mort goes into the bar with his gun blazing and passes Sam's test.
Mort the Bounty Hunter meets Hank the Soul Collector while apprehending a particularly dangerous skip.
A knock on his front door wakes Jack up much too early.
Life as a cop loses its appeal to Mort, and he seeks a different line of work.
Jack received the call about his wife's death on the highway nearly five months ago. When school ended, Jack left the life they had and moved into the house his aunt left him on Buzby Beach. How old is too old to start over? Jack needs the answer.
Mort's quest for justice, some may call it vengeance, takes a step closer to fulfillment with help from a friend.
Everything Jack wasn't taking in his car was packed in the moving van. Everything in the van was headed for storage. Jack's old life was packed in a truck and ready to be left behind him.
There was a shot, burning pain and then Mort wakes up in a hospital to learn his life has been ripped from him.
An old girlfriend reenters Mort's life and the old spark flares.
Jack decides he doesn't want to stand around watching the movers pack up his life, so he leaves them to their work and finds another place to be.
Staff Sergeant Mort Talley leaves the Army after 10 years, 8 of it in Special Forces, and 6 months in Iraq to become a cop in Boston, MA, his hometown.
Jack packs up the few things left in the house he wants to take with him and takes one last look around.
Jack isn't hurrying through his morning. Coffee, a V-8, and breakfast at the local diner. Then it's back to the house for some final packing.
Jack Callaghan lost his wife in a tragic auto accident. After nearly 6 months, he takes his first steps into the rest of his life.
Still trying to digest the idea of a date with Georgia, Jack heads to Wilmington on a furniture and electronics hunt.
Jack wakes up early and takes a walk around the town of Buzby Beach before enjoying a dip in his pool. Later, he'll meet Georgia at the Parisian Bean for coffee. Jack hasn't decided if he's looking forward to that or not.
The Shoreside Sharks last non-coference game of the season took place on a rainy Friday night. Could they keep up their unbeaten streak or would the falling rain be their downfall?
Even an old dog can learn new tricks and Jack had learned that the best way to keep up with the people he cared about was by being online. Everyone he new except his father was on Facebook.
Over Jack's dinner and Corie's fries they both have to decide if they are on a date or not, and they both start to hope the other thinks so.
Much to Jack's surprise he runs into Corie on the pier. Jack thinks it's just a chance meeting, but did Corie leave it all up to chance?
During his first weeks on the island Jack meets many interesting people, each of whom, it seems, has something to share with him to help him get back to living life.
To appease his mother, Mary, Jack attends Mass and is introduced to Georgia, a woman who may understand what he is going through, and then some.
15-year-old Sabine was raped by her older sister's boyfriend when she was 12. Her sister thinks Sabine led the boy on. Dad thinks Sabine was asking for it. Mom's too drunk to care. Sabine desperately needs some coastal healing. This is her arrival at Buzby Beach.
The second night on the island the loneliness is more poignant as the advantage of fatigue isn't there to help deaden Jack's mind and help him find sleep.
The empty house needs to be filled. Jack realizes some basic housekeeping supplies and a few groceries are a must. He doesn't like it, but he needs to go shopping.
Young drivers often get caught up in what's going on in the car, sometimes to their peril.
High school years can be fraught with strong emotions, deep resentments, actions with tragic consequences, and unlikely heroes.
Michael's son Declan has graduated college and will soon be leaving to start his military career, but not before father and son share one last sail around the lake.
The farm I lived on when I first married had an old tobacco barn behind the house and there was one slat on the barn broken off at the lower corner that always drew my attention.
Ronnie didn’t find out until he was twenty-two years old that the man he’d called Dad all his life wasn’t really his father.
Trevor had never attended any of his high school reunions. He hadn't planned to attend this one.