When the first batch of Darling Dollars, a temporary currency approved by the town leaders to help the struggling town of Darling survive, disappears, the Darling Dahlias investigate.

In the Lake District, noisy test flights of the new hydroplane are disrupting life in the village of Near Sawrey. Miss Beatrix Potter can barely hear herself think, which she needs to do for her new case. Grace Lythecoe has been receiving anonymous letters threatening her good name. Beatrix must proceed quietly, so as not to arouse village gossip. And there is yet another piece of business for Beatrix to address: that of her own future. With a second...

In 1935 Darling, Alabama, the members of the Darling Dahlias garden club, while facing the Great Depression with courage and grace, are plagued by an arsonist, an oncoming hurricane, a visit from a much-loved-much-hated senator from Louisiana and romantic entanglements.

In 1940, art-world icon Georgia O'Keeffe bought a house in New Mexico, planning to live there for six months every year. To manage her remote household while she paints, O'Keeffe invited Maria Chabot-a young and naïve would-be writer-to join her. Their tempestuous relationship endured throughout the chaotic years of WW2; the death of Georgia's philandering husband; and Maria's design and building of a remarkable adobe house and studio for the artist...