When a backhoe blade hits a 5,000-year-old human skull, archaeologist Callie Dunbrook is called to excavate the site. She almost quits when she finds her new partner is her ex-husband, Jake, but it turns out that he is only the beginning of her problems.
During a summer in Paris, seventeen-year-old stepsisters Alexis and Helene try to sort out their relationships with their parents, boys, and each other, while also pursuing internships at a fashion house.
Wilson and Ruth Carter, having spent the past nine months trying to understand why their eleven-year-old daughter Isabelle suddenly quit speaking, are forced to face the possibility that what they initially thought was just an adolescent phase might be a lifelong transformation.
Ginny Young embarks on a journey home to see the mother she has not spoken to in thirty-five years and to discover the truth about events from the past that determined the course of her life.
Nine-year-old Jane Gable's life changes in 1947 when her abusive, alcoholic father dies and the first African-American family, the Turners, moves to her neighborhood in Morgan Hill, Tennessee, and things become even more complicated when her pregnant mother agrees to take young Milo Turner into her home after his family is killed in a house fire.
Kwan moves from China to live with her family in San Francisco and develops a relationship with her half sister Olivia, confiding in Olivia about the ghosts who advise her about love and relationships.
Regina Riant, daughter of a Confederate veteran, grows up in Mobile, Alabama, at the turn of the century, where she dreams of breaking away from her family and marrying entrepreneur Charles Morrow, despite her father's objections.
