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Mackenzie Dienes seems to have it all. But really, it's her husband who does. So when their marriage is over, she's on the brink of losing everything. But if she can let go, she might discover something more beautiful waiting for her.

Tallie Clark is on her way home when she spots a man precariously standing on the edge of a bridge. She convinces the man to join her for a cup of coffee, and he reluctantly shares his first name: Emmett. Over the course of the emotionally-charged weekend that follows, Tallie makes it her mission to provide a safe and comfortable space for Emmett, although she doesn't confess that she works as a therapist. However, Emmett is not the only one who needs help, and he has secrets of his own.

Louie and Dahlia Moscatelli chose to be foster parents, but to boys only. Then their lives are irrevocably changed when a six-year-old indigenous girl comes to live with them.

Barely thirty, Lynette is exhausted juggling multiple jobs but still wants to provide a stable home for her family. As her desperation builds, Lynette makes a dangerous choice that sets her on a precarious, frenzied spiral.

When Antonio is diagnosed with epilepsy at eighteen, he and his absentee father travel to Marseille to visit a doctor who may hold the hope for an effective treatment and connect for the first time.

Beautiful, fearless, and tormented, at forty-five Dalva has lived a life of adventures. Now, she begins a journey back to the Nebraska prairie where she was born and the son she gave up for adoption years ago.

For fifteen years, the Echota family has been grieving their son. As the family's annual bonfire approaches, each of them feels a blurring of the boundary between normal life and the spirit world.

It's 2008, and the inauguration of President Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated Black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man who is eager to start a family, but Ruth is uncertain. She knows that to move forward she must make peace with the past.

Evie and Kass Shao's father claimed their brother Jakob was abducted by aliens. Fifteen years later, Jakob returns speaking of an intergalactic war. To help him, Kass and Evie are going to have to fix their issues.

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. But events don't go to plan, with far reaching consequences.