widows

Widowed and pregnant, Gianna Costanza comes to Kirkwood Lake with her world in pieces. She's determined to put her life back together after her cop husband's death and romance definitley isn't part of the plan. But when she meets her new landlord and neighbor, she knows she doesn't stand a chance. Deputy Sheriff Seth Campbell is strong, kind, and more supportive than she ever imagined a man could be and soon he's sweeping Gianna off her feet. But she doesn't know if he's ready for an instant family or if she's brave enough to love another lawman.

"A year after her husband Zach's death, Lizzie goes to lay flowers where his fatal accident took place. As she makes her way along the road, she thinks about their life together. She wonders whether she has changed since Zach died. She wonders if she will ever feel whole again. At last she reaches the spot. And there, tied to a tree, is a bunch of lilies. The flowers are addressed to her husband. Someone has been there before her. Lizzie loved Zach. She really did. But she's starting to realize she didn't really know him--or what he was capable of"--Amazon.com.

After the death of her traveling salesman husband Ben, Hattie Darling discovers that Ben had another wife named Anya and a child in another town. Without telling Anya who she is, Hattie rents a room from her and learns more about her husband's secret life, discovering love and friendship in the process.

Running away to marry her musician boyfriend and escape her claustrophobic high school life, Tam is shattered by sudden widowhood and is forced to return home, reinvent herself, and reach out to others while struggling with grief.

Presents the script of Horton Foote's 1953 drama in which aging widow Mrs. Watts, living a restricted life with her son and daughter-in-law in Houston, tries to return to her old home in the town of Bountiful in an attempt to regain her strength and dignity.

Every summer the Newton family returns to their home on Nantucket for three months, but when Arch Newton is killed in a plane crash, his widow Beth can barely keep her life, much less her family together, as she tries to continue the family's summer tradition.

Environmentalist Isabel Green, still conflicted over the suicide of her first husband, marries for peace rather than passion the second time around, but while vacationing with her new spouse's parents in the Adirondacks, it becomes desperately clear she has made the wrong choice.

British journalist Stephen Sharkey escapes the trauma of covering the terrorist attacks on New York City to live in a country cottage and write a book about violence and the reporter's complicity in it, and learns, along with his former partner's widow, Kate Frobisher, that no place is completely safe.

Karen Spears reflects on how her father's death in Vietnam impacted her family and shares the story of how her mother worked to keep their family together.