"During a terrible heat wave in 1991, nine-year-old Anton is locked in an apartment alone for seven days without electricity. He breaks a window to climb out and the police find him covered in blood. His mother is found nearby in a crack house, where her drug dealer raped her and kept her high. A Harvard-educated senator's son, Judge David Coleman is desperate to have a child in the house again after the tragic death of his teenage son. He uses his...

"It's been 25 years since Gus and Monica left England to start a new life in Spain, building a vineyard and wine business from the ground up. However, when Gus suffers a stroke and their idyllic Mediterranean life is thrown into upheaval, it's left to their three grown-up children in London to step in. Sebastian is busy running his company with his wife, Anna, who's never quite seen eye-to-eye with her mother-in-law. Katie, a successful solicitor...

The daughter of white liberal parents brings home her fiance, a distinguished black doctor. Both sets of parents are shocked in spite of themselves and must confront their true feelings about race.

Two sisters, Evangeline and Beatrice, have established a fashion house that creates a sensation in the London of the Roaring Twenties. The sisters and the House of Eliott face changing times, cutthroat competition and romance as they survive in the world of fashion. But the world of haute couture is shrinking. In order to survive, can the House of Eliott realize that ready-to-wear is fashion's future?