Lucky and Addy Lipton plan a trip to Costa Rica in a last-ditch effort to get their marriage back on track, but while loading the bags, Lucky throws out his back. When Lucky plants himself on the couch to recuperate, Addy decides it's time for things to change, even if that means making choices that involve all the women of Parker, Pennsylvania.

All it took was one night and one bad decision for fifteen-year-old Violetta Chen-Samuels' life to go off the rails. After driving drunk and causing the accident that kills her little sister, Violetta is incarcerated. As a juvenile offender, her fate is in the hands of those she's wronged--her family. With their forgiveness, she could go home. But without it? Well... Denied their forgiveness, Violetta is now left with two options, neither good--remain...

"Abandoned by his father after his mother drowns in a frozen Minnesota lake, fifteen-year-old Wes Ballot is stranded with coldhearted grandparents and holed up in his mother's old bedroom, surrounded by her remnants and memories. As the wait for his father stretches unforgivably into months, a local girl, whose own mother died a brutal death, captures his heart and imagination, giving Wes fresh air to breathe in the suffocating small town. When buried...

In upstate New York, Stephanie and Patrick are adjusting to life with their colicky twin babies. But when a woman from Patrick's past drops in on them unexpectedly, everything changes.

On the eve of the Battle of Waterloo, two families meet at the Duchess of Richmond's ball. From this moment on, their stories will be linked by a secret.

A gay writer famous for his radio stories becomes the surrogate father to a thirteen-year-old child abuse victim, which forces him to confront his relationships.

Having agreed from the start of their relationship that they did not want children, a couple finds their previously idyllic marriage tested when the husband realizes that he wants to be a father after all.

Relocating to a family farm in Connecticut after surviving the Columbine school shootings, Caelum and Maureen discover a cache of family memorabilia dating back five generations, which reveals to Caelum unexpected truths about painful past events.