In 1996, after American student Emma lost her scholarship to study art in Paris, she began working for Stella Swanson, whose late husband had managed one of the world's largest art conglomerates. As the two women grow closer, Stella confides in Emma, sharing shocking secrets about the Swanson family business. The story shifts to 1891, when two very different women form a bond. It has been a year since Vincent van Gogh's suicide, and his sister-in-law Jo is now a widow, left a

Leslie Woodhouse is a retired defense attorney living in Florida with her second husband, Richard. Leslie has a daughter named Stephanie from her first marriage, while Richard has a strained relationship with his son, Weston. Tensions have risen for area residents due to a serial killer known as the Gulf Coast Killer, who remains at large. After his latest female victim is abducted, the woman’s eight-year-old daughter manages to escape. With an eyewitness finally available, t

In 2015, Dawn Hartley is approaching 40, and her life is not going in the direction she'd envisioned. While close to her mother Miranda, who raised her as a single parent, she finds it impossible to tell her that she has a drinking problem, especially since mother runs Hartley Vineyard in California's Napa Valley. When a project necessitates that she read the children's series Vineyard, Dawn is shocked how familiar the setting is. It sends her seeking to find the author, whos

By 1965, Helen Gurley Brown had gone from a successful advertising copywriter to an author. Her book Sex and the Single Girl was a groundbreaking hit, speaking to legions of single women. Helen’s next goal was to launch a magazine for these same women, covering topics that had never been addressed before. Instead of getting the go ahead for her new magazine, she was given three issues to revitalize the struggling Cosmopolitan magazine. The talented “Mrs. Brown” assembled an a