Jeremy Marsh is now living in Boone Creek, North Carolina, married to Lexie Darnell, and awaiting the birth of their daughter; but, just as when things a looking goods, an unsettling and mysterious message brings trouble from the past.

While planning a baby shower for her friend, New York homicide lieutenant Eve Dallas investigates the disappearance of a pregnant woman and the murders of two, wealthy, international accountants.

Jean, Steph, and Michael, three souls from vastly different backgrounds, find themselves thrown together at a secluded country home, where they find new beginnings, leaving the outside world behind and creating their own happiness.

Cyrla, a young Jewish woman from Poland living with Dutch relatives, seeks temporary shelter from the Nazis by posing as her pregnant cousin Anneke who has committed suicide after being granted a place in the Lebensborn, a maternity home for girls carrying German babies, and must learn to trust Karl, the soldier who impregnated and deserted Anneke, for her continued safety.

Shunned Anna Mae doesn't receive the welcome she expects when she pays a visit for Christmas and her world begins to fall apart, leaving her to question her place in her family -- and her faith in Amish tradition.

Twenty-nine-year-old aspiring yoga instructor and freelance writer Amanda travels to India to do research for a guide on enlightenment, where she realizes she is pregnant and is befriended by a celibate truth seeker whoaccompanies her on her quest for happiness.

Livesey here tells the deceptively simple love story of Zeke, a 29-year-old painter and carpenter with the face of a Raphaelite angel, and 37-year-old Verona, a pregnant radio host.