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After Isabeau Collins learns she has two half-sisters, she feels a need to learn all about her biological mother. She moves to Pueblo, Colorado and hires Kyson Turner to renovate her new pastry shop. Isabeau is drawn to the sadness inside this man, recognizing a loss similar to her own.

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. Three years later, he's released to a world that refuses to let him move on.

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. But although Evie has made a successful career, her desire for stability and security has meant she's never experienced the best life has to offer. But the discovery of more letters hidden in a safe-deposit box points to secrets her mother held close, and possibly a new way for Evie to think about her family, her heart and her dreams.

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.

Elisa Wright is convinced her brother-in-law is a murderer. Every woman Josh dates has wound up missing or dead. But when she talks with Josh's new girlfriend, she starts to question her own sanity.

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.

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.

Jo Wright swore she'd never step foot anywhere her nemesis, bestselling author Will Price, is. But after accepting a lucrative speaking offer at a book festival, Jo runs into him, and he wants to make amends.

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 own life.

"Bree" Beckham, who escaped a stormy marriage, now faces a category-five hurricane headed for her Florida island home. Animal-loving Bree sets out to rescue pets cut off from their owners, but that may mean needing to rely on Drew Hartwell, the local sexy heartbreaker.