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Fourteen-year-old Carey and six-year-old Jenessa have lived in the woods with their mother for as long as they can remember.

Meet the Brunsons of Downers Grove, Illinois: Henry, the once-magical father; his wife, Julie; Charlie, the golden-boy son; and Barkley, the bumbling youngest.

"Bree" Beckham, who escaped a stormy marriage, now faces a category-five hurricane headed for her Florida island home.

The trauma of childbirth and shock of motherhood compel Amanda to show up unannounced on the doorstep of her estranged best friend, and to trace the tangled roots of friendship and family in her ow

Jo Wright swore she'd never step foot anywhere her nemesis, bestselling author Will Price, is.

Judith Kratt inherited all the Kratt family had, including the murder that no one talks about. Then her wayward sister suddenly returns, determined to expose the Kratts' skeletons.

Caught up in the charismatic thrall of her recently returned brother, Tucker, nine-year-old Cora agrees to accompany him on a cross-country mission to make war on human civilization.

Elisa Wright is convinced her brother-in-law is a murderer. Every woman Josh dates has wound up missing or dead.

Every year on her birthday, Suda Kaye opens another of the letters her mother penned before she passed. But on her twenty-eighth birthday, she opens the letter that sends her home.

When their mother passed away, Evie Ross and her sister were each given a stack of letters, one to be opened every year on their birthday, to inspire and guide them through adulthood.

Thea's son was just seventeen when he went to prison for the murder of his girlfriend, a crime he has no memory of committing.

After Isabeau Collins learns she has two half-sisters, she feels a need to learn all about her biological mother.

Problems are mounting for Hotel Portofino coproprietor Bella Ainsworth, and all eyes are on the arrival of a potential love match for her son Lucian.

Evie and Kass Shao's father claimed their brother Jakob was abducted by aliens. Fifteen years later, Jakob returns speaking of an intergalactic war.

It's 2008, and the inauguration of President Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope.