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Edward Bennett does not understand his Italian immigrant mother's overprotectiveness, and, while studying abroad, he vows to solve the puzzle by finding her native town in southern Italy that

KJ and Becka, cousins but strangers, have no idea why their grandfather's will makes them team up to complete a bucket list.

Phoebe Adams and her mother Ruth both need a safe haven, so they head for Summer Island where Grandma Alice still rules the roost from the big New England beach house Phoebe and Ruth once called ho

Emmy Quinn is West Texas through and through.

A son's relationship with his divorced father has disintegrated over the years.

Eleven-year-old Ellis Johnson has the summertime blues. He dreamed of spending the summer of 1976 hanging out with friends, listening to music, and playing his harmonica.

Sara thought teaching philosophy at Kuwait University was temporary, and yet inertia kept her there.

Widowed mother Libby worries about her handsome son, Chase. Chase is going to marry Liam, but both men resist including their traditional parents.

Empty-nester Anna McNichol is ready for a new life direction, but disaster strikes when her husband dies and secrets surface.

Hannah's whole life has been on the road with no explanations. Then, on her seventeenth birthday, she wakes up transformed.

Lizzie finds solace in Vista Mar Community Gardens, but when a neighbor brings the outside world in, the very existence of Vista Mar is threatened.

Paris, 2015. An American au pair is led away in handcuffs after the sudden death of her charge.

Australia, 1960s. For thirteen years Odette raised her fair-skinned granddaughter Sissy without drawing notice from the authorities who remove fair-skinned Aboriginal children from their families.

To escape her demanding family, Robyn Caldwell visits her aunt Lillian in Santa Barbara.

When Susie suddenly dies, her sister Camilla receives a bundle of letters instructing her to visit a place special to Susie, both to spread her ashes but also to uncover some truths Susie has long