A young fashion buyer is swept toward a heartbreaking choice between security and peace and passionate love.

Cornelia Brown willingly gives up her urban life to move with her husband, Teo, to the suburbs, where she struggles to form friendships with her judgmental neighbor and a kindred soul who helps Cornelia overcome the loneliness that seems to be consuming her.

Ellen's seemingly perfect marriage comes into question when she runs into Leo, the man who left her brokenhearted eight years before.

Grandpa and Uncle Charlie officially give the family farm to Josh, who takes on the responsibility and begins to think about creating a family of his own.

Abigail, an actress who believes that everyone has a book or writer who is the key to their life, proves the truth of that axiom as her relationship with her academic boyfriend falls apart after the arrival of an anonymous letter claiming she has been unfaithful, and her best friend and tenant Dara is unsettled by attempts by her distant father Cameron to reconcile.

Violinist Michael Holme, practicing a challenging work of Beethoven's with his quartet, the Maggiore, is made nostalgic by the music for his lost love, Julia McNicholl, who he met while studying in Vienna, and when he happens to spot her on a London bus, their mutual passion flares anew.

Maxine Williams' amicable divorce from her husband, Blake, has allowed them to remain friends, taking frequent vacations together while Blake still enjoys his fun-loving lifestyle and Maxine stays grounded with her children and work as a doctor, but when Maxine falls in love with another man, her relationship with Blake is forced to change, causing Blake to wonder if he is ready to give Maxine up for good.

Laurel McBane, who works with her best friends Emma, Mac, and Parker at a wedding planning company, harbors a crush on Parker's older brother Delaney, a successful lawyer who she is convinced is out of her league, but when the two share a passionate kiss, she wonders if it could lead to something more.

Rossie Benasco, already a veteran cowboy though barely twenty, meets and marries the pregnant daughter of a Scottish rancher in the 1930s who becomes the focus of his life as he runs a farm in Montana, raises a family, joins the Marine Corps during World War II, and becomes involved in politics.

After a brief visit to the remote archipelago of St. Hauda's Land, Ida Maclaird slowly begins to turn to glass and returns, hoping to find a cure, and instead finds herself falling for loner Midas Crook.