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When Marina Moore decides to expand her farmers market and pop-up dinner business, the next step is a café on the shores of Summer Beach. But challenges loom, and Marina must quickly become more creative than ever, especially when her children need help. Her sister Kai's position with a musical theater troupe forces more changes. Their sister Brooke is having marital challenges, while grandmother Ginger continues to contribute her advice on the life well-lived - if only her granddaughters will listen.

When jeweler-to-the-stars Elena Eaton is ensnared in a daring jewelry heist on the night of the Academy Awards, she discovers that nothing in La La Land is as it seems. As her sterling reputation and private life suddenly turn into tabloid fodder, a family emergency draws her back to her hometown of Sydney, Australia.

A bookshop on the beach. A sizzling summer ahead. Join a new book club at the Seabreeze Inn. When sisters Ivy and Shelly Bay form a book club to help support a local bookshop on the beach, friends and guests of the old beach house inn are eager to join, although one new member harbors a potentially devastating secret. But when a threat arises during a book club meeting that could impact the entire beach community, members pull together, proving that the bonds of family and friendship are more important than ever in Summer Beach.

As a top international model, hardworking Penelope Plessen changes her hair like other women change shoes. Jetting between runways in the world's most glamorous cities is the life she's dreamed of, yet it all implodes during Fashion Week in New York City when a run-in with a paparazzi turns deadly. Navy SEAL turned bodyguard Stefan Armstrong, the man who once broke her heart, whisks her to safety.

Verena Valent is at the helm of her family's legendary Swiss skincare company in Beverly Hills. After her parents die, she becomes the sole provider for her younger twin sisters and her grandmother, rising to the challenge to guide and expand her family's business. She is in the midst of a critical international expansion when her carefully organized life begins to unravel. While she struggles to save the business that means everything to her, she meets Lance, an executive chef at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

In the glamorous world of high stakes beauty and fashion, Scarlett Sandoval is a top intellectual property attorney in such demand that her firm sends private jets to shuttle her between Los Angeles, New York, London, and Madrid. In the midst of a critical trademark deal between a top fashion designer and an international cosmetic company, Scarlett is shocked to learn that in order to achieve her coveted partnership, one devious partner expects more than she is willing to surrender. Soon she is marked for murder.

When Fianna left Ireland for America to follow her dream of becoming a fashion designer, she was determined to leave her family's ancient past behind and start fresh in Beverly Hills. Fianna never imagined that her goal would jeopardize her and those who work for her. From the runways of Los Angeles to London, someone is trying to sabotage her debut season. As Fianna struggles between two vastly different worlds, her troubles mount, though her friends lend their support in her darkest hours.

It's August 1959 and it's blackberry picking time. 'Lollypop' and 'Living Doll' blare out from the juke box; boys wear natty suits, their hair slicked back in Elvis quaffs; girls are dressed in puffed out skirts - all of them with one thing on their minds ...How far do we go to keep a promise? A backstreet stabbing changes the lives of five young people forever and promises prove difficult to keep.

1953. Con il cuore spezzato per la misteriosa morte del marito, Celina Savoia decide di lasciare la sua città, San Francisco, e attraversare l'oceano per dare al figlio l'opportunità di conoscere la famiglia del padre, in Italia. La "Cioccolata Savoia" è famosa in tutto il mondo e Celina è sicura che, nella cornice meravigliosa della costiera amalfitana, lei e il piccolo Marco riusciranno finalmente a lasciarsi il doloroso passato alle spalle.

Una storia familiare piena di segreti e appassionante. Nella California degli anni Cinquanta, Caterina e Santo, un giovane italiano cresciuto con lei nella tenuta vinicola di Milles Étoiles, consumano una notte di passione dopo la quale lei si scopre incinta. Respinta dalla famiglia e dalla società per aver scelto di tenere la figlia illegittima, Caterina decide di partire per l'Italia, dove si trova il casale ricevuto in eredità da una vecchia zia.