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Mara is a successful lawyer, and devoted wife and mother. Struggling with a devastating illness, she has set herself five days to make the ultimate decision for her family. Scott lives a thousand miles away, and is a foster parent to a troubled eight-year-old. Scott is facing his own five-day countdown until his beloved foster son is returned to his biological mother. The two connect through an online forum, and find a friendship to help guide them through the most difficult, and momentous, week of their lives.

Markie, a fortysomething divorcée who has suffered a humiliating and very public fall from marital, financial, and professional grace, moves, along with her teenage son, Jesse, to a new town, hoping to lick her wounds in private. But Markie and Jesse are unable to escape the attention of their new neighbor Mrs. Saint, an irascible, elderly New European woman who takes it upon herself, along with her ragtag group of "defectives," to identify and fix the flaws in those around her, whether they want her to or not.

Mara, erfolgreiche Anwältin und liebevolle Ehefrau und Mutter, lebt seit einigen Jahren mit einer schrecklichen Gewissheit: Sie leidet an einer unheilbaren Krankheit. Um ihrem Mann und ihrer kleinen Tochter einen qualvollen Leidensweg zu ersparen und ihnen als glücklicher Mensch in Erinnerung zu bleiben, beschließt sie, sich nach dem Auftreten bestimmter Symptome das Leben zu nehmen. Nun bleiben ihr noch fünf Tage.

Jasmine is not sure she likes the idea of being stuck in Victoria BC while her father goes to China. But on a field trip to Chinatown, she changes her mind. Passing through a doorway in Fan Tan Alley, she mysteriously finds herself in the early 1880s. Adventure begins with a new friend, a journey to the Fraser Canyon during the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and a search for an ancient amulet. But Jasmine is not the only one searching for the white jade tiger....