Pilar, an independent young woman, renews her relationship with a childhood friend who is now a maverick seminarian, and together they follow a spiritual path to true love.

Hallie Palmer is persuaded by her legal guardian Bernard to return home to Cosgrove, Ohio, after her first year of college to take up her job as groundskeeper and help him win back his lover Gil who is considering marriage, and her own problems take a backseat when she is drawn into the further dramas of Bernard's eccentric mother, her party-girl sister, and an ex-boyfriend.

Young, innocent Joy Anderson, having succumbed to passion with aspiring journalist Gabe Venture, is left with a broken heart, and a baby on the way after he goes off to pursue fame and fortune, and when he returns seven years later to find her independent and worldly, it is she who must decide whether to grant him another chance at love.

When Roylin Bailey falls in love with a new girl in his history class, he finds that his life starts to fall apart.

Maria, a girl from a Brazilian village whose heart was broken at a tender age, is led into a career as a prostitute and develops a fascination with sex for its own sake--a view that is challenged when she meets a handsome painter who restores her belief in love.

Lady Alice and Sir Hugh strike a bargain--she will help him recover the treasured stone he seeks in return for enough money to allow her to live independently. But Hugh, recognizing in Alice the wife he has longed for, makes her agree to a temporary betrothal, hoping it will turn into the real thing.

April Lancaster, recovering from the death of her finance, is reluctant to tell her new love Brandon about her medical problems, but when the brain tumor that has been dormant for so long begins to grow, she realizes she must put Brandon's feelings to the test.

April Lancaster and Mark Gianni, a young couple whose lives are shadowed by certain death, meet in the hospital, fall in love, and determine to marry despite April's inoperable brain tumor, Mark's cystic fibrosis, and the disapproval of their families.

Bow Street runner Nick Gentry, hired to track down Lottie Howard, the runaway fiancee of an elderly lord, finds his prey only to realize he must have her for himself, and while she agrees to his rash proposal of marriage, Nick and Lottie's secret pasts may keep them from finding a lasting love.

Nesta's friendship with T.J. is strained when Luke, the boy whom Nesta has been dating, develops an interest in T.J.