In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything...

As their father, a brilliant oceanographer, approaches his 70th birthday, siblings Ken and Abby, who have a troubled and complicated relationship, each plan the elaborate gifts for him, jockeying for primacy in this small family unit, in a novel that draws on the biblical tale of Cain and Abel.

Told from three different viewpoints over the course of one day, this domestic comedy follows a wife, her husband and her best friend as long-standing tensions between all of them come to a breaking point, throwing everyone’s integrity into question and their relationships into chaos.

When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. In the years since she's last seen Minh, Ann has built a seemingly perfect life--a beautiful lake house, a charming professor boyfriend, and invites to elegant parties that bubble over with champagne and good taste--but it all crumbles with one positive pregnancy test. With both her relationship and carefully planned future...

After losing his prestigious job as head of a film studio, Hollywood executive Andy Westfield retreats to a tiny coastal village in England to figure out his next move. There he hires a local woman, an unemployed former journalist and aspiring novelist named Violet, to help him get his affairs in order. When Violet leaves her unfinished manuscript at Andy's house, Andy reads it and realizes it could be adapted into a great film. Could this be the...

Running her farm-to-table café as well as a menagerie of rescued animals, Luna Wright, when the owner of Apple Ridge Farm passes away and his investment manager takes over control, she, with her home threatened, must dig deep to find true strength and the real meaning of love and family.

Freshly single and unemployed, Kerry agrees to help her brother sell Christmas trees in New York and make a new start.

An already-troubled married couple, Isabel and Dan, both become obsessed with Isabel’s younger brother and must deal with the challenges and changes wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Gertrude, nicknamed Gertie, raising a precious teenage daughter, and a 10-year-old son, as a widow, attempts to find a balanced life. She has a full plate of responsibilities with her children's needs, partner of a busy bank, and owner of three beauty salons. Involvement with a failed marriage and annulment , she finds a short time of happiness with a marriage to her bank partner Roger. Will her health issues shorten that elusive search for abundant...

When real estate developers discover the hidden enclave of SANS--Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest and Nineveh--the home of African American elites, Olivia Jones fights to preserve her new Black utopia, leading her to define the meaning of love, friendship, community and family.