Having left boarding school to live in a London hotel with her famous mother, thirteen-year-old Hollywood Bliss Winterman attempts to lead a normal life despite her parent's attempts to turn her into a celebrity.
Several years after her husbands passing, Eby decides to sell Lost Lake, it's quaint cottages and memories to a land developer, but when her neice Kate comes to visit with her daughter, Eby begins to think that there is someone in her family that can keep the magic going.
Teenager Carla Elkins witnesses a triple homicide that might be drug related, but helping her mother Bell Elkins, the Raythume County, West Virginia, prosecuting attorney, could put her life in danger, even as it helps to repair their relationship.
Lily arrives in Montreal as a mail-order bride only to be rejected by the man she is suppose to marry, but his brother takes pity on her and decides to marry her, and after her daughter is born, Lily abandons the family and leaves them with a diary explaining that she is not who they think she is.
When her adult daughter with Down syndrome, Chloe, begins to have a relationship with Thomas, another mentally challenged person, Alicia Richards prepares herself to help Chloe through the moments of heartbreak and joy that this new stage in her life will bring.
The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family. Includes interview with author Jacqueline Woodson.
During the summer of 1947, war widow Kate Herrick returns to her childhood home in the English countryside to retrieve some family papers for her grandmother. When she discovers a break-in and the papers missing, she begins a search for truth down a trail of family bitterness, jealousy, and revenge and into an exploration of her own past.
