Paj Ntaub, a young Hmong American girl, spends a busy year with her family in their new home, and seeks a way to share the beauty of the world with a grieving neighbor.

In "A Face in the Crowd," widower Dean Evers sees faces from his past while watching baseball; and in "The Longest December," the Howard family struggles to see their kind and gentle neighbor James Wilkinson as the violent criminal the police are investigating.

Every single one of the women on Apple Hill Lane has been withholding an icy secret. Though battling the winter blues during her divorce, Jude Banks has held it all together... until now. Will she find her Christmas spirit amidst the hardships in life? Quinn Whittle never told her daughter the truth. But that didn't stop Vivi from digging around ... or looking for anther place to spend December 25. Beverly Castle is about to face the holidays for...

After witnessing something suspicious right before her elderly neighbor turns up dead, birdwatcher Lily Gullick sets out to find out what really happened.

Arriving on Mallow Island, right off the coast of South Carolina, to claim her late mother’s apartment, Zoey meets her eccentric and secretive neighbors, including a girl on the run, a lonely chef, a legendary writer and three ghosts, each with their own stories whose endings haven’t been written yet.

Mr. Putter is persuaded to run in a senior marathon with his neighbor, Mrs. Teaberry, when he learns that second prize is a train set.

Relocating to an apartment with her two children to be closer to her mother, Gretchen offers to help clear out the home of a reclusive neighbor's recently deceased mother and discovers that the neighbor, Melissa, has two siblings and an identity that she never suspected.

Salma Khatun is hopeful about the safe suburban development to which she, her husband and their son have just moved. Not long after they move in, Salma spots Tom, her neighbor, ripping out the anti-racist banner her son put in their front yard. She chooses not to confront Tom and takes the banner inside and puts it in her window instead. But the next morning she wakes up to find her window smeared with paint. This time she does confront Tom, and the...

Grace Travis welcomes the opportunity to live in and fix up an adorable little beach house but bumps heads with the real estate developer next door who has set his sites on the adjacent property.

After she agrees to care for her two younger brothers during Christmas, librarian Julia Winston accepts the help of her neighbor, military pilot Jamie Caine, a man she thinks is not her type, until she discovers a side of Jamie she never expected.