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Jane and Dan have been married for nineteen years, but Jane isn't sure they're going to make it to twenty. She's pretty sure Dan is cheating on her. When the couple goes to the renowned upscale restaurant La Fin du Monde to celebrate their anniversary, Jane thinks it's as good a place as any to tell Dan she wants a divorce. But before they even get to the second course, an underground climate activist group bursts into the dining room.

Mia Graydon's life looks picket-fence perfect; she has the house, her loving husband, and dreams of starting a family. But she has other dreams too - unexplained, recurring ones starring the same man. Still, she doesn’t think much of it, until a relocation to small-town Pennsylvania brings her face to face with the stranger she has been dreaming about for years. And this man harbors a jaw-dropping secret of his own - he's been dreaming of her too. Determined to understand, Mia and this not-so-stranger search for answers.

"Si j'ai appris une chose, c'est que l'amour est chaotique. Il ne nous est pas livré dans un joli paquet cadeau. Il ressemble plutôt au cadeau d'un enfant, tout froissé et gribouillé au crayon. Imparfait. Mais toujours un cadeau. Seulement, tous les cadeaux ne sont pas faits pour durer éternellement." Fantasque et drôle, Jubilee Jenkins souffre d'un mal extrêmement rare : elle est allergique au contact humain (pour résumer aux gens). Après un épisode qui a failli lui coûter la vie, elle décide de ne plus sortir de chez elle.

Piper Parrish's life on Frick Island - a tiny, remote town smack in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay - is nearly perfect. Well, aside from one pesky detail: Her darling husband, Tom, is dead. When Tom's crab boat capsized and his body wasn't recovered, Piper, rocked to the core, did a most peculiar thing.