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Happily ever after begins today. The honor of your presence is requested at a year of weddings....

Everyone in Wynotte, North Carolina, knows the name Davy Malcor. Knows the video clip of him juggling four balls, "All at the very same time!" Knows the Marty McFly jacket his mother made for his birthday that he wore proudly, and often. But no one knows what happened to him the night he went missing more than twenty years ago. When the jacket is unexpectedly uncovered, the cold case reopens, and Davy's family is thrust into yet another media storm. But at the heart of the story are four people forever changed by one single night.

When the sound of sirens cuts through a cool fall night, the small town of Worthy, Georgia, hurtles from triumph to tragedy. Just hours before, they'd watched the Wildcats score a winning touchdown. Now, they're faced with the deaths of three cheerleaders - their promising lives cut short in a fatal crash. And the boy in the other car - the only one to survive - is believed to be at fault. As rumors begin to fly and accusations spin, allegiances form and long-kept secrets emerge.

From the outside, Sycamore Glen, North Carolina, might look like the perfect all-American neighborhood. But behind the white picket fences lies a web of secrets that reach from house to house. Up and down the streets, neighbors quietly bear the weight of their own pasts - until an accident at the community pool upsets the delicate equilibrium. And when tragic circumstances compel a woman to return to Sycamore Glen after years of self-imposed banishment, the tangle of the neighbors' intertwined lives begins to unravel.

On an ordinary spring afternoon in a small-town post office, a domestic dispute spirals out of control. The husband pulls a gun and barricades himself inside with four hostages—his wife, a young woman searching for her purpose in this world, a midlife mom facing her only daughter's graduation and imminent departure, and an elderly woman hiding a secret about her life at home. Outside, even the negotiator is forced to put aside her own personal baggage in order to find a peaceful resolution to a volatile situation . . . using exclusively words.

Annie Taft’s wedding is four days away, and it will be one of the grandest anyone can remember in her small South Carolina town. Preparations are in order. Friends and family are gathering in anticipation. Everything is going according to plan. Except that Annie herself has vanished. Did she have second thoughts? Or has something much worse happened to the bride-to-be?

Everyone in Raleigh, North Carolina, is talking about Norah Ramsey, the single mother accused of being a suburban madam. But Norah's not the only one keeping secrets. After her mother's arrest, Norah's teenage daughter, Violet, is devastated and alone. She has no one to turn to until her grandmother Polly arrives. Polly, long estranged from Norah, is running from her own troubles.

Ein schicksalhafter Sommer, der fatale Lügen und lang gehütete Geheimnisse ans Licht bringt. Bis jetzt war Sycamore Glen die perfekte amerikanische Kleinstadt-Idylle: behütete Kinder, Familien, die sich ihr ganzes Leben lang kennen, freundliche Nachbarn, die sich gegenseitig helfen. Doch als der Sommer anbricht, bekommt die schöne Fassade plötzlich Risse. Erst verschwindet ein kleines Mädchen spurlos. Dann ertrinkt um ein Haar vor den Augen aller ein Junge im Pool, dem Mittelpunkt des sonst so heiteren Gemeinschaftslebens.

A June Bride by Marybeth Whalen: Wynne Hardy never thought she'd get engaged on a reality TV show, but when she met Andy the two of them hit it off. Now he's asked her to marry him, and they're all set to wed on live TV in a seaside ceremony. But just as Wynne thinks all her dreams are coming true, her ex-boyfriend walks back into her life at the worst possible time. Steve broke her heart years ago, and she's still sorting through her feelings for him.

Que savons-nous vraiment de ceux que nous croyons connaître ? Sycamore Glen, en Caroline du Nord, a tout de la résidence idéale. Ici, tout le monde se connaît - ou croit se connaître. Mais derrière les portes closes du voisinage, se cachent de terribles secrets. C'est ici qu'une petite fille a disparu il y a quelques mois. D'elle, il ne reste que des affiches délavées sur les murs de la ville. Alors que le voisinage est en effervescence à l'approche de la fête nationale, un nouveau drame vient bouleverser l'équilibre délicat du quartier.