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Sous chef Aimee Tierney has the perfect recipe for the perfect life: marry her childhood sweetheart, raise a family, and buy out her parents’ restaurant. But when her fiancé, James Donato, vanishes in a boating accident, her well-baked future is swept out to sea. Instead of walking down the aisle on their wedding day, Aimee is at James’s funeral - a funeral that leaves her more unsettled than at peace.

Furniture artisan Meli Hynes still abides by her uncle’s truism: the only lasting love story is the one between artists and their creations. Having already given marriage a shot—for all of twenty-four hours during a Las Vegas fling—Meli made her choice. The wood-crafting shop that is her family legacy will always come first. But when her uncle decides to sell to a competitor, Meli’s promised inheritance goes belly-up. She’ll do anything to muddle the deal. Including a marriage of convenience to an unforgettable and very practical old friend—the competitor’s son, Aaron.

Two months before his wedding, financial executive James Donato chased his trade-laundering brother Phil to Mexico, only to be lost at sea and presumed dead. Six and a half years later, he emerges from a dissociative fugue state to find he's been living in Oaxaca as artist Carlos Dominguez, widower and father of two sons, with his sister-in-law Natalya Hayes, a retired professional surfer, helping to keep his life afloat. But his fiancée, Aimee Tierney, the love of his life, has moved on.

After a harrowing accident tore her family apart, Molly Brennan fled from the man she loved and the tragic mistake she made. Twelve years later, Molly has created a new life for herself and her eight-year-old daughter, Cassie. The art history professor crafts jewelry as unique and weathered as the surf-tumbled sea glass she collects, while raising her daughter in a safe and loving environment - something Molly never had.

Forced to choose between abortion or adoption, Olivia Carson’s younger sister, Lily, runs away from home. Sixteen and pregnant, she never returns. But she writes. Once a year, Lily mails a picture of her son, Josh, to Olivia until his thirteenth year. Then it’s Josh himself who arrives at Olivia’s house, alone, terrified, and in possession of a notarized declaration from Lily. It begins, “In the event I go missing...”

Raised by her fiercely passionate and free-spirited grandmother, Julia Hope has never gone without love. But as she tends to her only living relative during her final days, Julia struggles to overcome her fear of being alone. A thousand miles away, Matt Gatlin has managed to avoid the coldhearted grandmother with whom he once lived. But after twelve years of her being blessedly out of sight, she needs him. His resentments still raw, Matt packs up his car and reluctantly heads to California to confront a bitter past he thought was long gone.

Award-winning photographer Ian Collins made only one mistake in life, but it cost his mother her freedom and destroyed their family, leaving Ian to practically raise himself. For years he’s been estranged from his father, and his mother has lived off the grid. For just as long, he has searched for her.

After serving six months in a juvenile detention center, Lucas Carson returns home irrevocably changed by what happened there. Traumatized, Lucas shuts himself out from everyone he loves, even his younger sister, Lily, who ran away from home when she was pregnant at sixteen. When Lily resurfaces years later, Lucas can’t cope with his guilt about not being there for her. He takes off, only to cross paths with Shiloh Bloom—fifteen, homeless, and, like Lucas, escaping the past.

Jenna Mason’s life seems perfect: a successful career as an animator, a town house near the beach, and an adoring son, Josh, whose artistic talent looks as promising as his mother’s. But there’s something nobody realizes about Jenna. She used to be Lily Carson, a young mother on the run from a secret no one must ever know.

Lifestyle journalist Ella Skye remembers every celebrity she interviewed, every politician she charmed, and every socialite who eyed her with envy. Her husband. But what she can’t remember is the tragic car accident that ripped her unborn child from her. Ella can’t even recall being pregnant. Hoping to find the memories of a lost pregnancy that’s left her husband devastated and their home empty, Ella begins delving into her past when she’s assigned an exclusive story about Nathan Donovan, a retired celebrity adventurer who seems to know more about her than she does him.

With her deceased sister’s Route 66 bucket list in hand, California girl Joy Evers sets out on a cross-country road trip to meet up with her fiancé, checking off the bullets along the way. Singer-songwriter Dylan Westfield has a serious case of wanderlust and a broken-down car. Stuck at a diner between LA and Flagstaff, he meets Joy, his complete opposite. She’s energetic. He’s moody. She’s by the book. He’s spontaneous. She believes in love at first sight. He thinks love is a complicated mess. But Joy has a brand-new convertible.

Due mesi prima di sposarsi, James Donato scompare in mare, in Messico, impegnato nelle ricerche di suo fratello Phil, invischiato in traffici illeciti. Sei anni più tardi, lo stesso uomo dato per disperso riemerge dal suo stato di fuga dissociativa in cui era piombato quel maledetto giorno, per ritrovarsi protagonista di un'altra vita, con un nuovo lavoro e un nuovo nome. Vedovo e padre di due figli, vive a Oaxaca insieme a sua cognata Natalya, un'ex surfista professionista, con cui ha condiviso gli anni più bui.

L'aiuto cuoco Aimee Tierney ha trovato la ricetta per la vita perfetta: sposare il ragazzo che ama fin da quando è una bambina, creare una famiglia e poi chissà, un giorno rilevare il ristorante dei genitori. Il futuro che aveva sognato le passa però davanti in un lampo, come strappato dal vento, quando il suo fidanzato James perde la vita in un incidente in barca. Dal giorno in cui la chiesa che avrebbe dovuto ospitare il loro matrimonio è diventata il triste scenario per il funerale di James, Aimee non ha pace.

Die Hochzeit mit ihrer großen Jugendliebe sollte der schönste Tag in Aimees Leben werden. Aber statt mit James vor dem Altar steht sie nun allein an seinem Grab. Von einer Reise nach Mexiko ist er nicht zu ihr zurückgekehrt. Er galt nach einem Bootsunfall als verschollen, bis seine sterblichen Überreste angespült wurden. Jeder Moment ohne ihn schmerzt und die Vergangenheit gibt keine Ruhe. Eine geheimnisvolle Fremde behauptet, James würde noch leben.

Fuggita da un passato difficile e tormentato, Molly Brennan è riuscita a ricostruire una nuova esistenza per sé e la sua bambina di otto anni, Cassie, in un ambiente sicuro e pieno d'affetto. Appassionata cultrice e insegnante di storia dell'arte, ha imparato a scorgere la bellezza nascosta nelle piccole cose, come nei vetri di mare che raccoglie sulla spiaggia e che trasforma in magnifici gioielli, forse imperfetti ma unici e preziosi come la vita.