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To the outside observer, Vivian is a success story, but privately she contends with the aftershocks of her bad childhood.

Lorraine, "Rainy," lives a secluded life hiding from the disturbing past she wants to forget. If she's allowed to.

Ellie, an NYU grad student, is eager for the perfect weekend away with her boyfriend Steven, a wealthy and privileged professor at Barnard College.

Frankie has always protected her sister Izzy.

A group of four friends reconnect on a planned African safari. They hope to put away that horrible night, all those years ago. But after arriving, they find themselves completely alone.

Hornclaw is an assassin. But now, at sixty-five and nearing the end of her career, she has just slipped up.

Forty-year-old Emma has a good life until she begins displaying symptoms her insane mother once did: lost time and an inability to sleep. Now she must unravel the past to protect the present.

Skyla spends her nights ruminating about the regrets and deceptions in her long marriage. That is, until she rents a cottage to a charming British man, Teddy Cornwell.

At an elite private school in the Colorado mountains, Natalie is only an office assistant.

Emma Caan is an art forger specializing in classic paintings commissioned by museums and the ultra-wealthy.

We meet Julie several weeks after her suicide attempt, on the eve of her son's first birthday. Grateful to be alive, Julie tries her best to appreciate every moment.

Una Richardson responds to an advertisement for a ladies' companion, a position that leads her into the wealthy, secluded world of Mrs. Elspeth McKenzie.

Aspiring actor August Greene just landed a coveted spot at the prestigious School of Performing Arts in New York.

When animal behaviorist Guy Schermerhorn demonstrates on a TV game show that he has taught a young chimpanzee to speak in sign language, Aimee Villard, a student at Schermerhorn's university, is so

Richard doesn't have a past, but Sean does. Now someone is here to remind Richard that they remember what Sean did.