Samantha Sweeney

Sam is the middle daughter of the family. She always tries to be the strong one on whom everyone else can lean. Sam is Jamie's mother and has never been married. She is a determined woman who takes her role in the family seriously. She is the manager of Captain Sweeney's Seafood Market, the family business that her parents opened in 1959. Sam is struggling to keep the business open, especially after she discovers that her younger sister, Faith, took money without authorization, leaving the business in a precarious position following a major renovation.

Sam is trying too hard to be everything for everyone, and she becomes judgmental, especially toward Jackie. Sam begins drowning her troubles in alcohol, drinking to excess on a regular basis as a means of coping with her own fears and insecurities. When a police officer named Eli Marshall begins spending time with Sam...