Emma Corrigan must discover whether she has set herself on the road to ruin or romance when she arrives at work to find the handsome stranger she has confessed all her secrets to during a dangerously turbulent flight is the elusive CEO of Panther Cola, her place of employment.

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.

Lara Lington fears her imagination has gone into overdrive when she begins seeing the ghost of her great-aunt Sadie, who demands Lara find her missing necklace and in the process teaches Lara a great deal about herself, her heritage, and the importance of leading a fulfilling life.

Silver, taken in as an apprentice to the old, blind lighthouse keeper Pew in 1969, after her mother is blown into oblivion by a mighty wind off the coast of Scotland, is comforted by Pew's stories--especially those about Babel Dark, the son of the lighthouse's founder whose journey from lightness into dark mirrors Silver's own life.

Celestria, the spoiled, twenty one year old daughter of Robert Montague, learns disturbing secrets about her family and herself, and finds unlikely love, when she sets out to discover why her outwardly happy father apparently killed himself on the night of his lavish fiftieth birthday party at the family's English estate.

Dora, an Amish schoolmarm, chronicles in her diary the adventures and changes she experiences during her twenty-first year, including her work as a hired girl for a large family in Minnesota, her service as a companion for a wealthy, elderly woman in Pennsylvania, and her courtship with Matthew.

Arlene Fleet, having made promises to God in exchange for allowing her to get away with the murder of her school's abusive high school quarterback, realizes all bets are off when the arrival of an old classmate on her Chicago doorstep ten years later draws her back to Possett, Alabama, to face her past, and to introduce her bigoted family to her African-American boyfriend.

In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.