This is the story of two small-town former high school sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks. Now middle-aged, they have taken wildly divergent paths, but neither has lived the life they imagined, and neither can forget the passionate first love that forever altered their world. When they are both called back to their hometown for the funeral of the mentor who once gave them shelter, they will be forced to confront the choices each has made,...

Working alongside his mother and brother restoring a historic hotel in Boonsboro, Maryland, Owen Montgomery falls for a childhood friend.

Peony is the cloistered daughter of a wealthy family is betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, a small theatrical troupe is performing scenes from this epic opera. Peony attends the production, watching from behind a screen, but catches sight of a handsome man and begins a journey of love and sorrow.

Of three brothers, it was Ethan who shared his father's passion for the Maryland shore. With his father gone, Ethan is determined to make the family boatbuilding business a success, but amidst his achievements lie the most important challenges of his life. There is young Seth, who needs him more than ever. A woman he has always loved but never believed he could have. Ethan must learn to see around his dark and painful past and accept who he is.

Trauma nurse Julia McCarver was in shock when she answered the door and found the past standing there the person of former football quarterback S. T. "Storm" Dalton. Julia had painstakingly put her life together not just once, but three times after she had suffered from his selfishness, and she had no intention of making it a fourth. But S.T. wants two weeks to convince Julia that he's changed.