Camille Harte makes her living as a matchmaker. When she receives the diagnosis she's dreaded and learns she has only six months to live, she decides to do the unthinkable: find a replacement wife for her husband.

"Alice Kessler, the married mother of two sons, is living on the fictional Grays Island, in the Pacific Northwest, when her eight-year-old son is run over while riding his bike. Alice is convinced the driver, Owen White, was drunk, though her husband, Randy, is not. Neither is the court system. So, on the day Alice loses her wrongful death lawsuit, she runs Owen down in the courthouse parking lot, crippling but not killing him. Alice serves nine years...

After years spent in the shadow of her movie-star sister, Monica, Anna finally remakes herself. But when Monica is murdered, Anna is arrested as the prime suspect. Fortunately, Anna is not alone as she fights to exonerate herself.

Gerry Fitzgerald confronts a painful secret when the daughter she gave up for adoption twenty-eight years earlier comes into her life, seeking answers.

Sylvie's abandoned real daughter grows up in genteel poverty, but her illegitimate daughter is raised as her own, and becomes a doctor, only to find the deceptions of her past have caught up.

Erin and Jessica, childhood friends from a small Arizona town, are reunited when Jessica, a New York journalist, returns to ask Erin to switch places with her for six months to give Jessica a chance to reconcile with her estranged family.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Grace Truscott, writing a biography of her dead father, a Southern senator known for his good works, discovers he had an affair with his black secretary and may have murdered her husband. At that fireworks fly, the mother ready to risk anything to protect her career and prestige.

Forty-eight-year-old widow Samantha Delarosa Kelly's life is changed when she becomes pregnant with her much younger lover's child. Her younger daughter sees it as an insult to her late father, while her elder daughter is bitter that her mother is pregnant but she can't have a baby

"Rachel and Rose, now women with grown children of their own, find themselves face-to-face at last with the destiny that has haunted them for nearly half a century, since the two were switched at birth in the chaos of a hospital fire."--BOOK JACKET. "What confronts them now threatens to uproot a lifetime of deeply buried secrets: the impending marriage of Rose's capable and caring son to Rachel's emotionally troubled daughter. Once again the two women...