"For eighteen years, Jude Farraday has put her children's needs above her own, and it shows-her twins, Mia and Zach-are bright and happy teenagers. When Lexi Baill moves into their small, close knit community, no one is more welcoming than Jude. Lexi, a former foster child with a dark past, quickly becomes Mia's best friend. Then Zach falls in love with Lexi and the three become inseparable. Jude does everything to keep her kids on track for college...

Eve Dallas's "tough cop" exterior is shaken by her twisted former foster mother's demands for money in exchange for protecting secrets from Dallas's childhood, a situation that becomes more complicated when the woman is found murdered.

Seventeen-year-old Ritzy's carefully made summer plans are ruined when she is sent to a foster home with a cute boy next door, but when her old life catches up with her, plans and hopes collide.

In high school, poor, studious Jayne Scott and wild, wealthy Rebecca Worden became unlikely best friends, and when Jayne's mother died, the Wordens took her in. Rebecca and her mother, Elizabeth, were bitter enemies, prompting Rebecca to run away from home, while Jayne remained an unpaid assistant to Elizabeth. Now Rebecca is back home, and still angry; her brother David is back too, adding more chaos to the family dynamics.