San Antonio private investigator Tres Navarre agrees to help an old friend who has been accused of murder, but as Tres investigates his friend's claims, he begins to wonder if his loyalties are misguided.
As D-Day approaches, Faber, an aristocratic German spy known as "The Needle, " is aware of the the Allies' top-secret intended place of attack, but is distracted by the affections of Lucy Rose, a lonely, strong-willed Englishwoman.
Meridy Dresden, a successful mother and wife, returns to her hometown of Seaboro, South Carolina, to do research on the Gullah, and interviews her family's former housekeeper discovering secrets of her own past.
Suburban wife and mother Grace Lawson's idyllic life begins to unravel when she picks up a set of newly developed family photographs that contains a much older picture of a group of men that includes her husband Jack, and sets off a chain reaction of kidnapping and murder leading back to a deadly rock concert.
Wang Lung, a peasant in China in the 1920s, becomes a prosperous landowner with the help of his humble wife, O'Lan, with whom he shares a devotion to duty, land, and survival.
In this satirical look at the American family, a Midwestern mother named Enid, whose husband is losing his mind to Parkinson's disease and whose grown, self-destructive children are facing their own problems, attempts to arrange a happy family Christmas.
Glennis Harmon lives the perfect life as the wife of a prominent city attorney and the mother of two teenage children, but her perfect world is destroyed when her son becomes addicted to drugs and her family struggles to support his recovery.
Joan Castleman, traveling with her husband, famous novelist Joseph Castleman, to Helsinki where he is to be honored with a prestigious award, comes to the realization that she has had enough and wants out of their long, deceptive marriage.
