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Emerson, Georgia, and Marley have been best friends ever since they met at a weight-loss camp as teens. When Emerson tragically passes away, she leaves one final wish for her best friends: to conquer the fears they still carry as adults. For Marley, it's coming to terms with the survivor's guilt she's carried around since her twin sister's death, which has left her blind to the real chance for romance in her life. For Georgia, it's learning to stop trying to live up to her mother's and brother's ridiculous standards and learning to accept love.

Le mariage ? Pas pour moi ! Voilà le credo de Colleen O'Rourke. Il est possible que cette posture légèrement psychorigide ait quelque chose à voir avec sa rupture, dix ans plus tôt, avec le beau et irrésistible Lucas Campbell. Une expérience proche du saut à l'élastique - version sans élastique - que Colleen ne veut plus jamais revivre. Depuis ce jour, elle se contente de flirts sans lendemain, joue les entremetteuses pour ses amies et console les amoureux éconduits venus s'échouer dans le pub qu'elle tient avec son frère jumeau, à Manningsport.

Turning 30 has its ups and downs. For Callie Grey, coming to grips with her age means facing the fact that her boyfriend-slash-boss is way overdue with a marriage proposal. And that she's way off track, because Mark has suddenly announced his engagement to the company's new Miss Perfect. If that isn't bad enough, her mom decides to throw her a Big Three-Oh birthday bash - in the family funeral home.

Emma London never thought she had anything in common with her grandmother Genevieve London. The regal old woman came from wealthy and bluest-blood New England stock, but that didn't protect her from life's cruelest blows. Genevieve rose from the ashes of grief and built a fashion empire that was respected the world over, even when it meant neglecting her other son. When Emma's own mother died, her father abandoned her on his mother's doorstep. Genevieve took Emma in and reluctantly raised her - until Emma got pregnant her senior year of high school.

It's been over a decade since Nora left her hometown of Scupper Island, Maine, and very seldom looked back. She's carved out a successful life in Boston, where no one knows her as the awkward girl with the delinquent sister and the dad who left, but a not-as-dramatic-as-it-sounds brush with death has her taking stock of her life. Inspired to reconnect with her prickly mother and snarky teenage niece, Nora returns home for the summer, where she's forced to face the people she's spent the last ten years trying to avoid.

Cherche partenaire pour (aller à un) à mariage... À trente ans (peut-être un peu plus), Emmaline n'a que deux passions : son chiot et un taser qu'elle rêve d'utiliser... Aussi lorsque l'ex qui l'a larguée pour sa coach sportive l'invite à son mariage, à Malibu, lui faut-elle laisser ses hobbies et trouver un partenaire, et vite ! La petite ville de Manningsport abrite la cible parfaite : Jack Holland, bel homme charismatique, désormais à la tête du vignoble familial... À la grande surprise d'Emmaline, il accepte de jouer le petit ami idéal.

Joshua and Lauren are the perfect couple. Newly married, they're wildly in love, each on a successful and rewarding career path. Then Lauren is diagnosed with a terminal illness. As Lauren's disease progresses, Joshua struggles to make the most of the time he has left with his wife and to come to terms with his future - a future without the only woman he's ever loved. He's so consumed with finding a way to avoid the inevitable ending that he never imagines his life after Lauren. But Lauren has a plan to keep her husband moving forward. A plan hidden in the letters she leaves him. 

The Frosts are a typical American family. Barb and John, married almost 50 years, are testy and bored with each other...who could blame them after all this time? At least they have their daughters - Barb's favorite, the perfect, brilliant Juliet; and John's darling, the free-spirited Sadie. The girls themselves couldn't be more different, but at least they got along, more or less. It was fine. It was enough. Until the day John had a stroke, and their house of cards came tumbling down. Now Sadie has to put her career as a teacher and struggling artist in New York on hold....

Une comédie romantique à consommer sans modération. À 35 ans, encore célibataire et sans enfant, Honor est convaincue que son horloge biologique lui fait les gros yeux. Elle se résout à parler mariage à l'homme qu'elle aime depuis le lycée et avec lequel elle entretient une relation amoureuse extrêmement intermittente. Résultat ? Un refus gentiment emballé mais sans équivoque. Déjà sonnée, Honor reçoit le coup de grâce quelques semaines plus tard, quand l'ex homme de sa vie annonce son mariage avec celle qu'elle considérait jusque-là comme sa meilleure amie.

When Grace Emerson's ex-fiancé starts dating her younger sister, extreme measures are called for. To keep everyone from obsessing about her love life, Grace announces that she's seeing someone. Someone wonderful. Someone handsome. Someone completely made up. Who is this Mr. Right? Someone - exactly unlike her renegade neighbor, Callahan O'Shea. Well, someone with his looks, maybe. His hot body. His knife-sharp sense of humor. His smarts and big heart.

Faits pour être ensemble... mais pas tout de suite ! Vous souvenez-vous de Colleen et Connor, les jumeaux O'Rourke, et de leur pub, l'adresse incontournable, la plus sympa et la plus cosy de tout Manningsport ? Les revoici... sauf que cette fois, Connor tient la vedette. Lui et son amour de jeunesse, la belle et torturée Jessica. Il est beau-brillant-gâté par la vie, elle est belle-brillante et affronte une série de drames depuis sa naissance. Ils s'aiment comme des Roméo et Juliette contre lesquels le destin semble s'acharner. Alors que leur vie professionnelle est à un point d'acmé, Connor demande Jess en mariage.

Il y a trois ans, Jérémy, le fiancé de Faith Holland a eu la bonne idée de faire son coming-out le jour de leur mariage. De retour à Manningsport, petite ville où résident toute sa famille et ses amis, Faith, la promise évincée, est bien décidée à remettre un peu d'ordre dans sa vie et dans celle de son père (éviter, par exemple, qu'il se remarie avec une femme vénale pour qui l'imprimé léopard est le summum du chic). Restera ensuite la tâche la plus épineuse : redorer sa réputation. Ce qui suppose aussi de comprendre pourquoi le charmant et attentionné Levi Cooper, qu'elle croyait son ami, a tout fait pour que Jérémy clame son homosexualité devant la moitié de la ville.

Wedding-dress designer Jenny Tate understands the happily ever after business, yet somehow she's still involved in her ex-husband's life. In fact Owen's new wife may - inexplicably - be Jenny's new best friend. Sensing this, well, relationship isn't helping her move on, Jenny trades the Manhattan skyline for her hometown up the Hudson, where she'll be able to bask in her sister Rachel's picture-perfect family life...and hopefully make one of her own.

Ainsley O'Leary is so ready to get married - she's even found the engagement ring her boyfriend has stashed away. What she doesn't anticipate is for Eric to blindside her with a tactless breakup he chronicles in a blog - which (of course) goes viral. Devastated and humiliated, Ainsley turns to her half sister, Kate, who's already struggling after the sudden loss of her new husband.

Faith Holland left her hometown after being jilted at the altar. Now a little older and wiser, she's ready to return to the Blue Heron Winery, her family's vineyard, to confront the ghosts of her past, and maybe enjoy a glass of red. After all, there's some great scenery there.... Like Levi Cooper, the local police chief - and best friend of her former fiancé. There's a lot about Levi that Faith never noticed, and it's not just those deep green eyes.

Divorce attorney Harper James can't catch a break. Bad enough that she runs into her ex-hubby, Nick, at her sister's destination wedding, but now, by a cruel twist of fate, she's being forced to make a cross-country road trip with him. And her almost-fiancé back at home is not likely to be sympathetic.

Being one of the guys isn't all it's cracked up to be. So when journalist Chastity O'Neill returns to her hometown, she decides it's time to start working on some of those feminine wiles. Two tiny problems: one - she's five feet and 11 inches of rock-solid girl power; two - she's cursed with four alpha-male older brothers. While doing a story on local heroes, she meets a hunky doctor, and things start to look up. Now there's only one problem: Trevor Meade, her first love and the one man she's never quite gotten over....

Millie Barnes is this close to finally achieving her perfect life. Rewarding job as a local doctor on Cape Cod? Check. Cute cottage of her very own? Check. Adorable dog suitable for walks past attractive locals? Check! All she needs is for golden boy and former crush Joe Carpenter to notice her, and Millie will be set. But perfection isn't as easy as it looks - especially when Sam Nickerson, a local policeman, is so distracting. He is definitely not part of her master plan. But maybe it's time for Millie to make a new plan....

Posey Osterhagen can't complain. She owns a successful architectural salvaging company, she's surrounded by her lovable, if off-center, family, and she has a boyfriend-sort of. Still, something's missing. Something tall, brooding and criminally good-looking - something like Liam Murphy. When Posey was 16, the bad boy of Bellsford, New Hampshire, broke her heart. But now he's back, sending Posey's traitorous schoolgirl heart into overdrive once again.

Honor Holland has just been unceremoniously rejected by her lifelong crush. And now - a mere three weeks later - Mr. Perfect is engaged to her best friend. But resilient, reliable Honor is going to pick herself up, dust herself off, and get back out there… or she would if dating in Manningsport, New York, population 715, wasn't easier said than done.