Twenty-nine-year-old Sydney, once divorced and recently widowed, takes a tutoring job at the summer cottage of the Edwards family on the New Hampshire coast where she is supposed to prepare daughter Julie for the SAT exam, but what she anticipated as a relaxing idyll becomes complicated when she discovers Julie is a "slow" learner, she clashes with Mrs. Edwards, and the two grown Edwards sons become rivals for Sydney's affections.

First-generation Basque fisherman Conrad Labarde discovers the body of a young woman caught up in his nets off the coast of Long Island and joins the investigation with Deputy Tom Hollis to find the truth among the privileged families who reside there.

Widow Stella Rothchild moves to Memphis with her two children to start a new life and soon finds herself attracted to handsome landscaper Logan Kitridge; however, things get complicated when she encounters a ghost who does not approve of her new relationship.

Widower Cyn McCall agrees to a spur of the moment vacation with her late husband's friend, Worth Lansing, and the pair soon realize that their relationship is advancing past friendship and into something more romantic, leaving Cyn to question her feelings and decide whether or not she is ready to open her heart to love again.

High school student Lucy is pursued by Daniel, who claims to have known her in a previous life; and as their relationship continues to grow and Lucy begins to recall the secrets of her past, the mysterious force that separated them in their previous lives reappears.

Emma Grant's love of romance has helped her turn the wedding planning company she started with her three best friends into a success, but that same romantic streak may ruin her one chance at true love when her feelings for Jack, a longtime friend of all four girls, turn towards more than friendship.

Lizzie Nichols feels her life is finally on the right track, with a career she loves, the perfect fiance, and a dream wedding in the works, but everything begins to fall apart when she finds herself falling for her fiance's best friend.

Real estate agent William Collins struggles to maintain control of his life as he searches for love and happiness in Boston.

Noah Calhoun, recently returned from World War II in 1946, buys an old plantation home in rural North Carolina, where he contents himself with memories of his first love, a girl he met fourteen years earlier, but then she unexpectedly arrives at his door.