Charlie Kilgore is twenty-six years old and grew up in a lake house in Hero, New Hampshire. He is haunted by his family history, which he has no memory of. As an infant, his father, Mark, fatally stabbed close friend Isaac Haviland, driven by the recent discovery of Isaac's affair with his wife, Jane, who was also injured but survived. Charlie's older brother, Reid, grabbed him and they escaped in a rowboat. Now living in Boston, Charlie wants to make a podcast about the crim

Cassia Park lives in Los Angeles and is approaching her fortieth birthday. She works as a matchmaker for her family's business, One & Only. Cassia is the last in her line, dating back to when her family lived in Korea, who has the mystical gift of being able to read faces, see past lives, and identify a person's "fated" match. Cassie knows who her "fated" match is, but for the past ten years, despite knowing his name (Daniel Nam), she hasn't been able to find him. When she me

Jane Kim is the daughter of Korean immigrants. When the story begins in 2001, Jane is in her final year of law school in San Francisco, feeling dissatisfied with her career path, which she has pursued more to meet her parents' expectations than her own.   Her mother is also unhappy and has finally made the decision to move out of the family home in Napa, leaving her husband, Jane's father. Jane's domineering parents also affected her brother Kevin, a police officer who, like

The story is set in  Union Springs, a small town in Alabama, where a bortion is almost entirely banned. Nova Jones, a  t hirteen-year-old  girl, finds herself pregnant and too frightened to tell her mother. She turns to her school nurse, who brings her  after hours to Dr. Bria Gaines to end the pregnancy. Scared to have a follow-up visit, for fear of her mother finding out, Nova ends up collapsing and is brought to the hospital, where her secret is uncovered, along with the i