"One phone call is all it takes to lure Mallory Aldiss back to her family's Rhode Island beach home. It's been twenty years since she's been gone - running from the scandal that destroyed her parents' marriage, drove her and her two sisters apart, and crushed her relationship with the love of her life, Jack Sabathian.Twenty years during which she lived in New York, building her career as a photographer and raising her now teenage daughter Joy. But...

When their new neighbor who happens to be a young widow becomes pregnant, each of the three wives on the cul-de-sac in suburban Connecticut examines her own marriage and "the loyalties that perhaps have been taken too much for granted."--Jacket.

A mother invites her three grown daughters to her country house. The daughters are very different and hostile towards each other. Annette is a steady housewife with five children, Leah is a two-time divorcee and Caroline is a liberated lawyer. On arrival they find the mother gone and what follows is what the mother hoped for, the enforced proximity leads to peace between them.

When his ex-wife has a car accident, architect Jack McGill leaves his job and latest girlfriend to fly to her bedside in Carmel, California. Finding her in a prolonged coma, he moves into her home to look after two resentful daughters.

When her sister, a world-class runner, suffers a massive heart attack that leaves her in a coma from which she may never wake up, a woman and her family struggle to cope with the tragedy as their relationships are put to the ultimate test.

When a white couple gives birth to a baby with distinctly black features, a family is thrown into turmoil.