I know I've mentioned this here before. I also wrote another novel (this one a completed rough-draft) back in '99 in the hopes that it could become part of the aborted HarperCollins series. It was set in 2000 and was a where-are-they-now-next-generation story.
Carolyn and David were the "co-masters" of Collinwood. Carolyn never remarried and about two decades earlier, with her now-deceased mother's support, threw a huge investment into the construction of a resort hotel which was not only successful, but turned Collinsport into a posh vacation spot with other hotels, shops, cafes, stripmalls, etc., making it another Bar Harbor. David married, has two sons, and his wife had the entire Collinwood estate restored, making it the social center of the rich-and-famous who now populate the community. Carolyn and David's astute financial dealings have made the family mega-wealthy. Also living in Collinwood is Roger (Louis Edmonds was still alive) who's a loveable and always complaining curmudgeon. Quentin also lives there, working in Carolyn's businesses. Yes, he is still "immortal" and hides his "unaging" (and that's part of the storyline). Barnabas and Willie live in quiet retirement in the fully restored and modernized Old House. Imagine, electricity, plumbing, central heat and air, a satellite dish on the roof, Willie using a microwave and automatic dishwasher, Barnabas pursuing his hobby of history via the internet on his computer. Maggie is living in southern California, married with grown children to a successful husband; she comes to Collinsport for a visit after being gone for decades. And Angelique returns, this time a totally and completely reformed woman, totally human. And something else returns to Collinwood, something not rather nice.
It was fun to write, bringing everything up-to-date, with my own heart-tugging scenes, such as visiting the final resting places of now-long-gone-but-not-forgotten family and friends, such as Elizabeth, Julia and Eliot.
Gerard