Maureen O'Reilly and her younger sister flee Ireland in hope of claiming the life promised to their father over twenty years before. After surviving the rigors of Ellis Island, Maureen learns that their benefactor, Colonel Wakefield, has died. His family, refusing to own his Civil War debt, casts her out. Alone, impoverished, and in danger of deportation, Maureen connives to obtain employment in a prominent department store. But she soon discovers...

On Elise Friedman's eighth birthday, she lost her mother and any connection to her mysterious past. Raised by her loving stepfather, Elise has spent years trying to learn the truth about her mother, Catrina, and her birth family in Germany, but still knows very little. Now a young woman in college, Elise is traveling to her homeland of Germany to uncover her family's past, but what she finds is much more harrowing than she ever suspected.

Patty Jane's husband skipped town just before she gave birth. Harriet's rich boyfriend was killed in a plane crash before they could marry. Along with perm solution and advice on split ends, the two sisters from Minneapolis dispense warm cookies and genuine concern for the women who come in as customers and leave as friends.

"At the renowned Irish Meadows horse farm in New York, 1911, sisters Brianna and Colleen O'Leary struggle to reconcile their own dreams with their father's plans for the farm and his demanding marriage expectations"--

Told through four viewpoints, sisters Des, Bea, Kat, and Vi, aged nineteen to fifteen, are each transformed, especially in how they see one another, in the last summer before Bea leaves for college. Vi has a crush on the girl next door, but Cece has a boyfriend, so it's not like her feelings could ever be reciprocated, right? Kat lands the lead in the community theater's summer play, but her ex and his new girlfriend are cast too. Bea and her boyfriend...

The last place Abigail wants to spend the summer of 1885 is Fort Laramie in the Wyoming Territory, but can a handsome lieutenant change her mind?

Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is called on by her mother, Sandra, for help in finding a missing friend named Beth Avery. The fact that Sandra adamantly refuses to go to the police for help leads Eve to suspect that something is very wrong. Eve learns that Beth has been locked away in a mental hospital for years, which makes it even harder to understand how she could have disappeared. Eve enlists a secret weapon: rogue profiler, Kendra Michaels. With...

When her triplet sister Cara is diagnosed with leukemia, eighteen-year-old Stella puts her deams on hold to move home and be with her family, but when she starts spending time with the lead singer of Cara's favorite band, will Stella resent him for taking her attention away from her sister--or will he help Stella find the courage to live her own life?

Wendy struggles to adjust to life with her occasionally irritating younger sister.