• Three years after Mallory Blessing's death (in ), her friends gather for another eventful Labor Day celebration on Nantucket in "The Sixth Wedding." • The marriage at the heart of enters uncertain territory when Margot Carmichael encourages her husband to reunite with his ex-girlfriend in "The Surfing Lesson." • In "The Tailgate" the weekend of a Harvard/Yale football game recharts the course of "Matchmaker" Dabney Kimball's first—and abiding—true love. •   In "Summer of '79," the three Levin sisters reunite after a decade after the summer that changed everything. •   And more . . . With a foreword by Elin Hilderbrand about the writer's reluctance to leave treasured characters behind and a prefatory, "behind-the-scenes" note included with each story, this book answers the prayers of both new and seasoned readers everywhere who, like the reviewer, "would rather be living in an Elin Hilderbrand novel."