"Chin up, Emily Thorn is facing the heartache of love lost. She had put her life on hold to pay her husband's way through medical school, and believed his promise that one day she would have the children, education, and career she wanted. What she got was overweight, out of shape -- and dumped. Reclaming her life at forty, Emily slims down and starts up a chain of fitness centers. Soon she's skyrocketing toward entrepreneurial success and into relationships...

Teresa "Toots" Amelia Loudenberry stays in Charleston to Charleston to help care for her ailing housekeeper, Bernice. There is little time relaxing, with businesses to open and new modeling careers to launch, but the biggest task for Toots is planning her daughter Abby's wedding, especially when Abby's criminal ex-boss reappears and Abby sets off to apprehend him. Busy with wedding plans, Toots is surprised when a new romance suddently blooms in her...

NFL star Jake Masters has a spinal injury that ended his career. Now confined to a wheelchair, he's unwilling to take a chance on another risky surgery that could restore his mobility. But his twin sister Beth has no intention of letting him languish there forever, and she's gifting a matchmaking business to Jake, whether he likes it or not. It's soon clear that he needs an assistant. Enter Gracie Sweet, whose slender frame belies a take-no-charge...

"Life comes in stages. Even the Sisterhood has been content to let their gold shields gather a little dust while they enjoy their friends and family. But when a string of anonymous emails arrives at Pinewood, suggesting shady dealings at a local assisted-living facility, Myra Rutledge and her best friend Annie de Silva are more than ready to out-hustle a master con-artist at his own game. They'l need to enlist some new and untested allies in order...