Deanna Reynolds and Angela Perkins are the reigning queens of afternoon talk shows. Once friends, their off-screen competition has more at stake than ratings.

Thomas Chippering is obsessed with getting his ex-wife back, but now that she is remarried, it isn't going to be as simple, so he has to find a way to sabotage her new relationship.

Perdita Halley, a young woman who has turned down the proposal of Alexander von Reisden, fearing marriage would impede her music career, instead begins a passionate, clandestine affair with him in Paris in 1910, until an American acquaintance arrives and turns gossip into scandal.

An accident on the campus of Sowerwine University changes the life of student Kissy Mellors who becomes involved with James Houston, a drunken pre-med student who caused the fatal collision Kissy witnessed, Mike Burke, a policeman who arrived at the scene of the crash, and Junior Clootie, a hockey star with whom Kissy begins an ill-fated affair.

In the Age of the Mazonians, women rule through magic and men suffer. Xylina, in order to avoid execution, must use her magic to conquer the most glorious male Mazonia has ever seen.

Age difference causes discontent in two separate relationships in England.

Rebuilding a shattered relationship takes Claire Chamberlain to London with her true love, Cole Taylor. In London Claire discoversher childhood friend, Lady Sarah Pembroke is a target for murder. Sarah is aided by FBI consultant Jack Dalton, who cares for her in more than a professional capacity.

When Molly Ballard steals money from the stable where she works, she is seen by FBI agent Will Lyman, who uses his knowledge to coerce her into posing as his girlfriend in an undercover investigation into a racehorse-fixing scheme, setting the stage for danger and love.

Matchmaker Charlotte Arkendale finds herself in need of a new man-of-affairs who can also serve as a bodyguard after one of her clients is murdered, possibly by a man Charlotte recommended. But when she hires Baxter St. Ives to fill the position, she discovers she must also guard her heart.