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

Dionne Daphne is a successful beauty editor at Essence magazine. On the surface, the thirty-three-year-old Ivy league Columbia graduate seems to lead a life anyone would envy. She's recently ended her relationship with her boyfriend Darren because he was too slow to commit to the future she believed they both desired. However, when Darren shows up at her Brooklyn home and delivers some terrible news, Dionne is devastated. In trying to sort out the implications of this horribl

In 1974, 18-year-old Chip Bishop receives a devastating diagnosis. After graduating from high school, he decides to work at The Red Maple Inn, a resort in the Poconos, without informing his family. He is seeking an escape from his illness and chooses a summer filled with accomplishment and new relationships rather than enduring painful and debilitating treatments. The following summer, Chip's sister Maggie travels to The Red Maple Inn, seeking solace at the place where Chip s