Cassie Wright, owner of Wright Glassworks, takes in one-year-old Gwen after a tragic accident and raises her as her own. Jewel Fairbanks enters the lives of Cassie and Gwen. Jewel envies Gwen. Both Jewel and Gwen marry. Jewel marries a shrewd businessman and Gwen a honest hardworking man who works for the company that Jewel's husband owns.

Growing up in a New England orphanage unaware of his family and of how he had lost his left hand as an infant, twelve-year-old Ren is terrified of the future, until a young man shows up claiming to be his long-lost brother, with whom he embarks on an adventure-filled odyssey of scam artists, petty criminals, and resurrection men.

As Flora and Ruby prepare for their first Christmas in Camden Falls with their grandmother, Min, the holiday spirit of the close-knit community must combat such issues as poverty, abusive parents, and Alzheimer's disease.

Joe Gunther must balance the official investigation into the murder of Wayne Castine, a suspected child predator, with a private probe into the possible murder of his girlfriend Lyn Silva's father and brother, who were originally believed lost at sea. Joe Gunther puts a murder investigation on hold to help his girlfriend Lyn solve her father's mysterious death in Maine. Discovering that Lyn's father and brother weren't the good guys that Lyn always...

After awakening from a four and a half year-long coma, a teacher finds himself irreparably altered -- both blessed ... and cursed -- with precognative visions of the future. Driven by his altruistic nature, he decides to use his newfound powers to prevent tragic events yet to happen. But as word of his unique ability leads to unwanted fame, the gift he hoped to share with humanity inevitably separates him from it.