Kirjahaku

Five year old Jamie has just lost her mother to suicide, and she has left a note for their sixty-six year old, recently widowed neighbor to raise her. Though close with Jamie and her mother, he and his wife had never had children, and he has no clue how to raise a little girl but he refuses to have her anywhere but with him. Harvey and his brother own a successful chain of Cassel's Grocery stores, started by their late father, which has gifted them wealth. The family views Jamie as a threat to the business and will stop at nothing to oust her from Harvey's life as she is preened to take over half of the stores.

History blends with the current when Tia Samuels inherits Annalise, a majestic Victorian house that has been passed through her family since the 1800s. She and her husband sell their house to move in and restore the home with their three daughters. Annalise hasn't been lived in for over five years and is in desperate need of a facelift. Tia discovers a chest of love letters between her newlywed grandparents during World War II, and her grandmother's diary, pouring out her deepest thoughts and details that she had written about in her endeavor to restore Annalise, which designer Tia decides to restore exactly that way in her grandmother's honor. Annalise had a lot of stories to tell, and when she finally spoke through her grandmother's diary, she told a secret that no one could believe.

"It's cardiomyopathy, and you need a heart transplant." The doctor's diagnosis stabbed her like a dagger. It seemed impossible for 26-year-old Jessica, who was healthy and athletic, to have been diagnosed with such a severe disease and having her health take a steep decline because of it. So bittersweet, she thought, to have been granted such an incredible, selfless gift but at the expense of her father. After twenty-six years of being estranged, they had finally formed an unbreakable bond. He had given her the ultimate gift of love that he felt he owed her - his heart. Losing him seemed so unfair. With a new heart and improving health, she and Roman, the kind stranger who had come to her rescue when she collapsed, are building the life together that they have always wanted. They have recently gotten married and bought their first home when they discovered that she is pregnant but their lives are rattled, yet again, when they are in a car crash that leaves Roman with a severe head injury and amnesia. As he works through therapy to try and recover pieces of his past, Jessica goes into labor two months early.

Based on a true story. A young couple is struggling financially and dreams of a life on the water. They sell their belongings for an aged, forty-foot cabin cruiser in Norfolk, Virginia. Their new life at Little Creek Marina is even better than they had imagined with their new friends and simpler lifestyle until, late at night on Labor Day, an unforeseen storm struck and sank their vessel in the Chesapeake Bay. With only the eerie darkness around them, they are forced to swim for their lives.