Henry Carter Hull

After sixteen years of marriage, Mattie Hart's husband Jake leaves her for another woman, leaving her to cope with her teenage daughter's anger and a health crisis that will tear all their lives apart.

Dorothea Granger is commissioned by her Uncle Jacob to stitch an unusual quilt; but when the man dies, Dorothea determines to continue his work helping runaway slaves along the Underground Railroad.

As a teenager, Hannah Benson ran away from home in order to save herself. Twenty years later, this loner is called home by tragedy, finding herself the sole responsible party for a troubled teenage niece.

A young woman reinvents herself, becomes the muse for French fashion designer Jean-Louis Tremont, and reaches celebrity status; but a malevolent figure from her past reemerges and reminds her of the terrifying encounter that she survived in the English countryside.

Beatrice Steel, the oldest of four daughters, has become increasingly domineering in the years since her mother's death, maintaining a tight hold over her role as mistress of the family home, but everything changes when her father is killed, and Beatrice plots to protect what she believes to be her rightful heritage.

Three grown siblings return to their childhood home and face a family secret that forces them to reexamine their relationships to each other and the aunt that took them in.

Claire thinks her life is over when her husband leaves her on the same day their daughter is born, so she decides to start over at her parent's home in Dublin, and while she is there she learns that the end of her marriage was the start of her new life.

John and Irene, now divorced, living in different parts of the country, and dating other people, share a love for their spunky sixteen-year-old daughter, Sadie, but when tragedy strikes, the two are instantly brought back together.

Noel agrees to take responsibility when he learns that his terminally ill former flame is pregnant with his child, and while the members of the town help the single father, he must prove to Moira, the nosy social worker, that the arrangement is best for baby Frankie.

Rose Smith, born in the very beginning of 1900, grows to be an independent and adaptable young woman who begins a family of her own, giving birth to three strong-willed daughters, who with their husbands, make their mark on the rapidly changing century.