Annotation:The devastating loss of their twin daughters in a flash flood turns the lives of Terry and Laura Sheldon upside down as their marriage is tested by grief, Terry's brief love affair, and their growing relationship with their foster child, a ten-year-old African American boy.

Annotation:In a tale spanning twenty-five years, a doctor delivers his newborn twin daughter during a snowstorm and, rashly deciding to protect his wife from the baby's affliction with Down Syndrome, turns her over to a nurse, who secretly raises the child.

Annotation:Endowed with extraordinary powers in a bizarre cleaning accident, middle-aged single mother Birdie Lee becomes her town's unwitting champion against a sinister force.

Annotation:After overcoming a difficult childhood in foster care, pediatrician Dr. Lucy Weiss, a suburban wife and mother, finds herself back in the world of families living on the edge as she begins working with at-risk young patients and their families, worries about her own children, and struggles to do the right thing for her patients.

Annotation:Kate Reddy, a hedge fund manager and mother of two, struggles to juggle her professional and personal lives and to balance—often unsuccessfully—on the tightrope of work and home.

Annotation:The mother of a teenage boy who killed seven fellow students and two adults in a high-school shooting writes a series of letters to her estranged husband on their son's upbringing and questions what she fears may be her own part in the tragedy.

Annotation:Eighty-five-year-old Pearl Tull recalls the desertion of her husband and her attempts to raise three children, who must come to terms with themselves and their father after their mother's death.

Annotation:A former public defender, stay-at-home mom Juliet Applebaum is plunged back into a world of crime when her newborn son's babysitter, a lovely young Chasidic woman, mysteriously vanishes without a trace.