Sharon McAnear

In the 60s, Jemma was the It girl in tiny Chillaton, Texas. In 1976, not so much. Her art is not ready for her big show, she can't wear anything without an elastic waist, and her toddlers rule. Her husband, architect Spencer Chase, just hired a sexy newcomer as his assistant. Lots of strangers are in town, including Jemma's own, dear Spencer. Can crows warn us of the future? Start counting. Meanwhile, the sheriff and the feisty postmistress are trying to figure out if her late husband had any virtues or was he in the Mafia? Actually, the most happening place around is the cemetery and Jemma is about to make it famous.

Parenthood descends upon the just and the unjust, changing lives like diapers. Is it the moon? Three babies arrive in Connelly County, Texas, during the frigid winter of 1973. But that's not the only news whipping around in the Panhandle wind. The local society page editor makes a whopper of a typo that has the whole town gossiping. Neighbor Lester's once-dead wife reappears, and the outspoken postmistress deals with her infamous mother-in-law. Jemma's grandmother, Lizbeth, might just get more than her college degree, and Aunt Do Dah runs smack dab into Cupid and the law. Jemma gets zapped with blessings and woe.

It's 1965 and artist Jemmabeth Forrester is painting from her heart. Trouble is, that heart is like the Texas Panhandle wind - strong and shifty. She chases after love like the Zephyr that runs on the tracks behind her grandmother's house. She gets hit hard, but sometimes that's what it takes to stop a runaway. Two men love her and she can't make up her mind about that. Getting advice from half the town, she could spare herself some grief, but Jemma is not one to learn from anybody's mistakes but her own. So, she makes extra.

Sweeter than smart, Annalisa Turner has it all--looks, money, a new boyfriend each week, and a family who adores her. The problem is that Lisa's tender heart launches her into a relationship with her bad birth mother, Missy, who is on parole twenty years after kidnapping Lisa and shooting at her adoptive mother, Jemma. Lisa can't believe Missy is as awful as everyone says, but she is about to learn that lesson the hard way. Jemma, meanwhile, is surely earning the first star in her Heavenly crown as her dear, eldest daughter gets the shock of a lifetime.

Overachieving, picky Betsy Chase thinks she's in love with a billionaire client who is way older and who fiendishly keeps his past a secret. Only recently she was engaged to the sweetest man in the universe, but broke it off without even talking to him. Now Betsy's mom must invoke her Nancy Drew skills to keep her baby daughter from planning the Wedding of Doom.Funny to mention Doom because her mom may have an appointment with hers when she meets Betsy's intended. Definitely another star in her mom's Heavenly crown.

Small-town boy, Andrew Chase, is an overnight television star, but he has a health issue that he tries to alleviate with remedies of his own. Never one to take advice from his family or anyone else, Drew also has much to learn when it comes to celebrity dating and the creative invasion of tabloid reporters and photographers. Love is just around the corner, every corner, in Hollywood.But it's not love that nearly kills him. Drew's story is a hard-earned star in his mother's crown, for certain