While staying at “The Paper Palace” — the family summer place she has visited every summer of her life, 50-year-old Elle must decide between the life she has built with her husband and the life she always imagined she would have had with her childhood love.

Lady Jessica must decide if her loyalty to the Sisterhood that she already betrayed once is more important than the love of her family.

A prisoner in a Siberian work camp, Marya, when her sister Vera, a doyenne of the KGB, investigates her conviction, is finally freed when Vera learns the truth that calls into question the very history the Soviets were working hard to cover up.

Inheriting The Sandcastle — a sprawling estate that was once a gathering place for musicians, artists and free spirits — from her great aunt, Jackie Pierce finds a way to bring it to life again while trying to solve a 20-year-old mystery that reveals dark secrets.

1930's Kansas. Neva Shilling's husband travels to neighboring communities and sells items from his wagon. In his absence she runs the Shilling Mercantile, working to keep their business strong as the Depression takes its toll, and caring for their twins. Then a deputy delivers three young children-- Warren and his wife have died, and their last request that the three children go live with "Aunt Neva." Neva's heart is shattered; she wants nothing more...