Dara Perlmutter

La vie s'écoule paisiblement pour Alice Goodwin, infirmière scolaire à mi-temps, qui s'occupe de ses deux petites filles dans une bourgade du Wisconsin. Tout bascule le jour où l'enfant de ses voisins Dan et Theresa se noie dans un étang, alors qu'elle était sous la surveillance d'Alice. Les habitants de la ville ne cessent de l'accuser, alors que Theresa lui a déjà pardonné. Commence pour elle un voyage en enfer.

Un mari et une femme qui trouvent leur vie monotone, se permettent une escapade d'un soir avec un étrange couple rencontré au Zebra Lounge…

Russell, a single father, balances his work as a lawyer with the care of his five-year-old son after his wife abandoned them. When she reappears creating turmoil, he must deal with his new love interest and the job opportunity of a lifetime.

In the aftermath of the terrible Civil War which has devastated the South, Amanda America Dixon returns home to find she has become the sole heir to a vast cotton plantation. But the dreadful secret which has blighted her life threatens to deprive her of the birthright which her beloved father David had struggled for so long to create. Raised by her father and grandmother to be the perfect white Southern Belle, Amanda's true mother was a black slave Julia. Confronted with the forces of greed and bigotry, Amanda has to face not only the hatred of a racist world, but the complex truth of a family whose lives have been built on a lie.

Chaque histoire est basée sur la vie d'un enfant ou adolescent auquel il arrive un évènement inhabituel sur lequel va se baser le reste de l'intrigue.