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Sabrina Brooks is a wildly successful bestselling author of gripping thrillers. Unlike her fictional characters, Sabrina lives a quiet life in the Berkshires with her two beloved dogs. But behind this peaceful exterior is a dark, painful past. As a child raised by an emotionally distant father, Sabrina rarely felt love. And as an adult, her marriage twisted into an abusive relationship from which she had to escape.

Valerie Wyatt is the high priestess of elegance: She has built an empire on how to entertain, how to decorate, how to live beautifully, and is at the top of her game with licensing arrangements for fine fabrics, furniture, wallpaper; six books; and a highly rated TV show. Valerie's daughter, April, is a classically trained chef and the workaholic proprietor of a comfortable, popular downtown New York restaurant. They couldn't be happier in their chosen fields—or more different in their attitudes.

Theodora Morgan is fashion royalty. Founder of a wildly popular online shopping service, she is one of the most successful businesswomen in the world, although she prefers to keep a low profile, especially in recent months. It was a year ago when the unthinkable struck her family: her husband, industry mogul Matthieu Pasquier, and their son were kidnapped and held for ransom—a nightmare that ended in tragedy. The case has gone cold, despite evidence linking the crime to Matthieu’s Russian competitors. Theo has reluctantly gone back to work running her company. 

Oliver Watson har alt, hvad han ønsker sig: et godt job, en fantastisk kone, tre vidunderlige børn og et dejligt hjem. Men hans liv ændres brat, da hans kone forlader ham for at fortsætte sine studier på Harvard. Tilbage står Oliver med problemerne, både de praktiske og de følelsesmæssige. Men enhver forandring er en udfordring, der skal tages op, og det gør Oliver med held. Han bliver forfremmet og flytter til Los Angeles med børnene, hvor han møder den smukke skuespiller Charlotte, som han forelsker sig i.

Stephanie Adams er en hengiven, hjemmegående husmor, men bliver kun hos sin mand for deres børns skyld, så da hendes mand pludseligt dør, står alle døre åbne. På trods af hendes børns sorg og hendes egne modstridende følelser, prøver Stephanie at komme videre men har svaert ved at finde sig selv som et uafhaengigt individ efter at have ofret sig selv for andre i flere år.

Ginny Carter was once a rising star in TV news, married to a top anchorman, with a three-year-old son and a full and happy life in Beverly Hills - until her whole world dissolved in a single instant on the freeway two days before Christmas. In the aftermath, she pieces her life back together and tries to find meaning in her existence as a human rights worker in the worst areas around the globe.

Oscar-winning actress Ardith Law is a Hollywood icon. A stunning beauty at sixty-two, her star is as bright as ever. Widowed at a young age by a philandering husband, Ardith is in no hurry to marry again. Her daughter, Morgan, a successful cosmetic surgeon, has always blamed her mother for a lonely childhood while Ardith was away on location, and the relationship remains strained despite Ardith's efforts to strengthen their bond.

Recently widowed Halley Holbrook has spent decades building a career as a bestselling novelist. The victim of an extremely traumatic childhood, something she revealed only to her beloved husband, and the memories of which she has since tried to bury. Halley is now in her fifties and the mother of twin daughters who, while extremely close to her, are both ready to lead their own lives.

I Tyskland på taersklen til Anden Verdenskrig, lever de to venner og enkemaend, Nicolas og Alex, hver deres fredfyldte liv med deres børn. Nicolas og hans families sikkerhed bliver dog truet, da hemmeligheden om hans afstamning kommer frem. For at overleve må familien flygte til Amerika, og det eneste som Nicolas og hans sønner kan tage med sig er deres otte fuldblodsheste. To af dem er lipizzanere og en gave fra Alex.

Gaëlle de Barbet is sixteen years old in 1940 when the German army occupies France and frightening changes begin. She is shocked and powerless when French gendarmes take away her closest friend, Rebekah Feldmann, and her family, and send them to a detention camp for deportation to an unknown, ominous fate.

Paul a été un père plutôt absent. Lorsqu'il décède subitement, sa famille découvre qu'il leur a réservé un héritage étonnant. À sa fille aînée, engagée auprès des sans-abri, il lègue la somme nécessaire à l'ouverture d'un centre d'accueil. Il encourage la cadette à utiliser son héritage pour voyager. La dernière a, grâce à lui, la liberté de poursuivre son rêve de devenir actrice. Et son ex-femme Véronique se voit confier la mission d'aller en Europe, à la recherche de l'auteur d'un mystérieux tableau.

Oona Kelly Webster is an editor at a prestigious New York publishing house. Married with two children, her twenty-five-year relationship falls apart when she books a silver wedding anniversary getaway at a luxurious château in France and her husband Charles suddenly drops a bombshell which will shatter her carefully built world. Although devastated, Oona decides to travel to France without Charles, but soon after her arrival in the charming village of Milly-la-Forêt, the world comes to a standstill due to a terrifying pandemic and all travel is forbidden.

Spencer Brooke grew up knowing that one day she would own and run Brooke's, one of New York's most respected department stores, established by her late grandfather. But the path to success hasn't been easy. Shocked after finding herself pregnant with twins, but knowing in her heart she could be a wife and mother as well as a CEO, pressure from her husband to sell Brooke's led to the breakdown of their marriage. When entrepreneur Mike Weston offers investment just when the store is going through financial difficulty, Spencer faces a dilemma.

In July 1944, Arielle von Auspeck arrives at the glamorous Hotel Ritz in occupied Paris. Half-French, half-German, she is happy to be back in France, where she her husband, Gregor, a retired colonel, will join her soon from Germany. Arielle and Gregor have thus far been able to hide their private opposition to Hitler. Then her world falls apart. She receives word that Gregor was part of Operation Valkyrie and a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in Poland, and has been shot as a traitor.

In 1930s Berlin, dark days dawn under Hitler's Third Reich. For nineteen-year-old Sophia Alexander, life will never be the same. The daughter of a respected doctor, Sophia has always believed that her destiny is to look after others, and as the persecution of Jewish families begins, she joins a group of dissidents who are committed to helping them to safety.

Meredith White era una de las actrices más populares de Hollywood, pero una tragedia personal interrumpió su carrera y la distanció de su familia. Durante los últimos quince años, ha vivido aislada del mundo en su mansión de San Francisco. Sin embargo, todo cambia cuando un terremoto devastador sacude la ciudad sumiéndola en el caos.

Kate Madison's children are grown and ready to forge lives of their own. Her daughter Isabelle is a dedicated attorney until she falls for a client she represents in a criminal case.... And then there's Julie, who meets a man who seems too good to be true, for good reason. Justin is a struggling writer who pushes for children with his partner before they're ready. And Willie, the youngest child, makes a choice that shocks them all.... Kate can't keep her children from playing against the odds. The hardest lesson will be that she can't protect them from the choices they make.

Four young women's lives intersect in the apartment they've shared in Hell's Kitchen: Claire, a shoe designer; Abby, an aspiring novelist; Morgan, a successful financial consultant; and Sasha, a resident in obstetrics. As different as they are from one another, the women had become a family by choice. But while their lives had proceeded smoothly in the years they'd lived together, new relationships, job opportunities, and surprising circumstances will test the strength of their bond in and outside the loft that had become their home.

Den smukke, succesfulde advokat Sarah, bor i en lille, faldefærdig lejlighed med sin kæreste Phil. Hverken forholdet til ham eller hendes fremtidsudsigter tegner lovende. Men da en af Sarahs klienter dør og efterlader hende sit imponerende hus og store formue, ændres hendes liv for altid. Huset viser sig hurtigt at have større værdi for Sarah, end hun kunne have forestillet sig, og hun sætter alt ind på at få det tilbage i sin oprindelige stand.

1958. The Palace of Versailles is hosting an event that will go down in history. It is a glamorous dusk-to-dawn ball, where a select group of debutantes will be presented to international society and royalty. And for four young women, all with something to prove, it is an event they will never forget.