Thomas Railles, an American expatriate who at one time did small jobs for the CIA, is devastated when his French wife, Florette, is murdered after she is injured while out walking and found by four Moroccans who, believing her to be American, chose to kill rather than help her.

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.

When Annabelle Worthington loses her family due to the sinking of the Titanic, she becomes a medical volunteer at Ellis Island, marries badly, and eventually finds purpose by volunteering in a field hospital during World War I.

Former operative Cotton Malone, working at a secondhand bookshop in Copenhagen, gets caught up with a American Secret Service agent when he breaks into Cotton's store while outrunning a pair of assassins, and joins the man on a mission to uncover the truth about the death of Cotton's millionaire friend's son and details about a secret organization that is trying to find Napoleon's hidden treasures as well as take down the global economy.

The Hotel Riviera is an aging eight room villa located on a sandy beach near Saint Tropez. Its proprietor and chef, Lola Laforet, quietly caters to the needs of her small but faithful group of guests while her personal life unravels.