What if instead of meeting someone new, you reconnected with someone from your past?

As Southern as fried chicken and peach cobbler, free spirit Gloria Robinson spent her lifetime building a successful permaculture farm on the tired dirt of former cotton fields in South Carolina. Now widowed, Gloria is certain she’ll never find someone new, not in this town. She wouldn’t even know how to try. Politically, she fears her years of effort for social justice are slipping backward. She’s becoming weary, but she’s digging in her heels.

Living in Washington D.C., perpetually single, party girl Anna May Walker floats through life disconnected from her roots in the South. Self-focused, she often ponders how she wronged Gloria in high school. When Anna May’s father dies, she heads home to lure her mother to move near her in a retirement community.

Avoiding each other in a small town is impossible, particularly when Anna May’s boss unwittingly assigns her to write a story about Gloria’s farm. After decades apart, will the old sparks be enough to restart a fire between them?

Dani Powell has been in this crisis scenario before–the extreme

Dani Powell has been in this crisis scenario before–the extreme highs and the devastating lows, the medications and the therapy sessions–and she is confident this is just another case of the blues. A talented artist, her hobbies of music and painting provide both an escape and a window into the chaos of her mind.

Andrea Fenwick juggles a busy accounting job with trying to keep her partner Dani grounded. She has watched Dani’s mental health ebb and flow throughout their years together, but this episode seems different. Driven to always do her best, her strong will and determination may not be enough to keep them both afloat this time.

Tommie Andrews, a computer whiz and occasional dog trainer, discovers she’s developing a crush on her friend and co-worker Andrea. The more she tries to be supportive of Andrea, the more apparent it becomes that friendship may be the most she can hope for. The timing couldn’t be worse. Or could it?

All three women struggle to determine when things will get better, and in doing so must confront what “better” means to each of them.

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What would you do if, after finally finding the woman of your dreams, she suddenly leaves to fight in the Civil War?

It’s 1863, and Elizabeth Hepscott has resigned herself to a life of monotonous boredom far from the battlefields as the wife of a Missouri rancher. Her fate changes when she travels with her brother to Kentucky to help him join the Union Army. On a whim, she poses as his little brother and is bullied into enlisting, as well. Reluctantly pulled into a new destiny, a lark decision quickly cascades into mortal danger.

While Elizabeth’s life has made a drastic U-turn, Charlie Schweicher, heiress to a glass-making fortune, is still searching for the only thing money can’t buy.

A chance encounter drastically changes everything for both of them.

Will Charlie find the love she’s longed for, or will the war take it all away?

Michelle Brennan has known since childhood she was meant to be a doctor. She works hard every day as an EMT and saves every penny toward her singular Michelle Brennan works hard as an EMT and saves every penny toward her goal of attending medical school. Everything Robin Barberg has struggled toward is coming together and she’s met the woman of her dreams.

Beset by calamity, Robin is forced to confront the reality that the very self-reliance which has gotten her this far could cost her the one thing she wants most.