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After a personal tragedy, writer Ava spends the summer in Woodburn, Tennessee at the invitation of an old friend and his aunts. But Woodburn Hall is anything but quiet: ancient feuds and modern-day rivalries emerge as Ava stumbles onto the darker side of the family's history, and becomes tangled in their secrets.

Exiled to Texas with his grown daughter, sculptor Francis "Gil" Gilheaney is commissioned to create a statue for a man who recently lost his son in WWI. But as work on the statue progresses, secrets slowly reveal themselves and Gil's fragile family threads begin to fray.

Tobacco brides--women prisoners shipped from England--are a hot commodity with farmers in 1643 Virginia. Drew isn't concerned about marriage--he just wants a servant to keep his house. Yet fate brings him to Constance, who claims to be a noblewoman kidnapped aboard ship. Constance is everything Drew despises in a wife--she cannot cook and she prefers mathematical equations to cleaning. Worst of all, she has red hair! But when the two are forced to marry, Constance's more enticing traits surface.

In 1970s Boston, the glossy veneer of 16-year-old Sarah Kunitz's wealthy family is starting to show cracks. Her parents' constant fighting and her mother's prescription pill abuse drive Sarah into two romantic relationships with unforeseen consequences. With grief fresh in her heart, Sarah wonders if she or her family will ever love again.

Three middle-aged sisters--each harboring a secret pain--gather to close up their grandmother's beach house for the final time. Together, they unpack their family baggage and discover the true legacy left behind by a grandma married seven times.

Carolyn takes a break from her widowed San Francisco existence to celebrate her mother's 70th birthday in the Canary Islands. As her mother's gentle affection and the islands' soothing allure soften Carolyn's heart, a Flamenco dance lesson, a defining camel ride, and the steady gaze of an old flame reawaken feelings she thought were forever gone.

Widower Jick McCaskill, his daughter Mariah, and Mariah's ex-husband Riley take a road trip back and forth across Montana. As Jick recounts his memories of the area, Riley and Mariah fall in and out of love--and Jick unexpectedly discovers a new partner.

In the late 1960s, a group of young idealists form a commune in western New York State. Into this group is born Bit, who grows into a quiet, distant man. Over the course of 50 years, Bit witnesses the utopia crumble and the world change in unimaginable ways.

Englisher Amelia Devries gets lost in a storm and finds herself in Hickory Hollow, Pennsylvania, in an Old Order Amish community. There she meets Michael Hostetler--and this encounter changes both their lives forever.

Taking his daughter Sara home from school one day, New Jersey accountant Glen drives his car into another vehicle, killing its driver. Since no one else saw the accident, Glen lies about it to the police--a decision that sends his life spiraling out of control.