Katie Miller, having returned to her Amish community a year after the accidental death of her boyfriend, struggles to overcome her depression and anxiety, while childhood friend Freeman Bontrager tries to win her affection and stay in good standing with her parents.

Knitting book author Abigail, having received the cold shoulder from Cade, the nephew of her mentor Eliza, after arriving at a cottage she had inherited from the woman, convinces him to allow her to stay and get the house in order, which leads to the pair trying to deny their attraction to one another and Abigail eventually having to choose between returning to the city or trusting the man who has stolen her heart.

Melanie, whose mind has been almost completely taken over by an alien named Wanderer, convinces the alien to search for her lost lover, who fled the extraterrestrial invasion, and tries to find a way in which she and Wanderer can coexist.

After he is released from the Army, John Tyree plans to spend the rest of his life with University of North Carolina student Savannah Lynn Curtis, but the events of September 11 change everything.

Eloise, a Harvard graduate student researching spies of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, begins a romance of her own as she uncovers the story of Lady Charlotte Landsdowne, a determined young woman who is not about to let go of her dreams of romance with Robert, Duke of Dovedale, even if it means becoming caught up in a world of espionage.

Theater director Lucas Cameron discovers a box of letters written to his deceased stage actress grandmother from her protégée Jessica Fontaine who had disappeared from the stage years before and falls so deeply in love with the girl of the letters that he sets out to find Jessica, changing the course of both of their lives.

Darcy Gallagher, a beautiful, strong, intelligent woman from the Irish village of Ardmore, dreams of romance and money and meets her match in Trevor Magee, a wealthy businessman who comes to Ardmore to build a theater and search for his family's old secrets.

The Hartes and the Golds, long-time neighbors and friends, are not surprised when their children Chris and Emily fall in love, but the bond between the families is placed under an enormous strain when Emily is killed, leaving behind the question of whether her death was a suicide, or murder.

The story of a bittersweet romance between an ambulance driver and a nurse during the First World War, and possibly the finest American novel of that war.

In the 1960's suburban town of Woodland, teenager Lily and her younger sister Pearl, newcomers to town, experiment with relationships and sex with both boys and girls.