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For Astrid Parker, failure is unacceptable. Ever since she broke up with her fiancé a year ago, she’s been focused on her career—her friends might say she’s obsessed, but she knows she’s just driven. When Pru Everwood asks her to be the designer for the Everwood Inn’s renovation, which will be featured on a popular HGTV show, Innside America, Astrid is thrilled. Not only will the project distract her from her failed engagement and help her struggling business, but her perpetually displeased mother might finally give her a nod of approval.

Delilah Green swore she would never go back to Bright Falls—nothing is there for her but memories of a lonely childhood where she was little more than a burden to her cold and distant stepfamily. Her life is in New York, with her photography career finally gaining steam and her bed never empty. Sure, it’s a different woman every night, but that’s just fine with her.

Everyone around Iris Kelly is in love. Her best friends are all coupled up, her siblings have partners that are perfect for them, and her parents are still blissfully married. And she’s happy for all of them, truly. Iris doesn’t want any of that—dating, love, romance. She’ll stick to her commitment-free hookups, thanks very much, except no one in her life will just let her be. Everyone wants to see her settled down, but she holds firmly to her no dating rule. There’s only one problem—Iris is a romance author facing an imminent deadline for her second book, and she’s completely out of ideas.

When Sunny St. James receives a new heart, she decides to set off on a "New Life Plan": one, do awesome amazing things she could never do before; two, find a new best friend; and three, kiss a boy for the first time. Her "New Life Plan" seems to be racing forward, but when she meets her new best friend, Quinn, Sunny questions whether she really wants to kiss a boy at all. With the reemergence of her mother, Sunny begins a journey to becoming the new Sunny St. James.

When a tornado rips through town, 12-year-old Ivy Aberdeen's house is destroyed, and her family of five is displaced. Ivy feels invisible and ignored in the aftermath of the storm - and what's worse, her notebook filled with secret drawings of girls holding hands has gone missing. Mysteriously, Ivy's drawings begin to reappear in her locker with notes from someone telling her to open up about her identity.

It's been five years since Charlotte Donovan was ditched at the altar by her ex-fiancée, and she’s doing more than okay. Sure, her single mother never checks in, but she has her strings ensemble, the Rosalind Quartet, and her life in New York is a dream come true. As the holidays draw near, her ensemble mate Sloane persuades Charlotte and the rest of the quartet to spend Christmas with her family in Colorado—it is much cozier and quieter than Manhattan, and it would guarantee more practice time for the quartet’s upcoming tour.

Hazel Bly used to live in the perfect house with the perfect family in sunny California. But when a kayaking trip goes horribly wrong, Mum is suddenly gone forever and Hazel is left with crippling anxiety and a jagged scar on her face. After Mum's death, Hazel, her other mother, Mama, and her little sister, Peach, needed a fresh start. So for the last two years, the Bly girls have lived all over the country, never settling anywhere for more than a few months.

Delilah Green jurou nunca mais voltar a Bright Falls, a cidade onde cresceu. Lá não há nada para ela, só as lembranças da infância solitária e do desprezo da madrasta e da irmã postiça, Astrid. Em Nova York ela tem uma carreira como fotógrafa em ascensão e uma mulher diferente em sua cama todas as noites. Mas quando Astrid usa chantagem emocional e um cheque polpudo para forçá-la a fotografar seu casamento e a maratona de eventos preparativos, Delilah acaba concordando em voltar.

Para Astrid Parker, falhar não é uma opção. Por isso, desde que rompeu com o noivo, ela está focada na carreira. E, ao ser convidada para realizar a modernização da tradicional Pousada Everwood em um reality show de reformas, ela tem uma chance de ouro para brilhar. O projeto não só promete ser a solução para os problemas financeiros de sua empresa como pode fazer com que ela finalmente conquiste a aprovação da mãe, que nunca parece satisfeita com nada.

Delilah Green hat sich geschworen, nie wieder nach Bright Falls zurückzukehren. Mittlerweile lebt sie in New York, ihre Karriere als Fotografin nimmt langsam Fahrt auf, und ihr Bett ist niemals leer. Als ihre Stiefschwester Astrid sie mit einem dicken Scheck lockt, ihre Hochzeit zu fotografieren, wirft Delilah ihre Vorsätze über Bord und macht sich auf in das verfluchte Städtchen, das sie einst ihr Zuhause nannte. Bei den Hochzeitsvorbereitungen trifft sie auf Claire Sutherland, eine von Astrids hochnäsigen Freundinnen. Dabei stellt Delilah fest, dass doch nicht alles so unattraktiv ist in Bright Falls, wie zunächst gedacht.