Darby Lane and Russell Gunn are inseparable friends from childhood to graduate-school. When Russell dies in a tragic accident, Darby returns to their Baton Rouge neighborhood to live with her aunts. Once there she begins to see Russ's brother, Ben, through new eyes and helps him to reunite with his estranged father.

Nealy Coleman was only 17 and deathly ill when she took her baby, Emmie, and fled into a snowstorm before her father could carry out his threat to send her little girl to an orphanage. Fate guided them to Maud Diamond's stud farm, where Nealy's sad story and her talent for working with horses earned her a place in the old woman's heart and convinced Maud that Nealy alone could chose the right mare and stallion to produce the farm's third Kentucky...

From her silver Mercedes to her designer kitchen, Molly's life is gleaming and beautiful -- at least on the surface. Married to Tanner, a top cosmetic dentist, she has a wonderful daughter finishing high school and twin stepsons from Tanner's first marriage. No one in her exclusive neighborhood in Goldenhills, Massachusetts, knows what living with the demanding Tanner is really like. They know even less about the life she left behind in Florida almost...