Is there really such thing as a lucky charm? The hero of Nicholas Sparks's new novel believes he's found one in the form of a photograph of a smiling woman he's never met, but who he comes to believe holds the key to his destiny. The chain of events that leads to him possessing the photograph and finding the woman pictured in it is the stuff of love stories.

All Savannah belle BeBe Loudermilk has left after her disastrous relationship with Reddy, a con man, is a ramshackle 1950s motor court on Tybee Island. With the help of friends, she soon has Breeze Inn ready for paying guests. When Reddy's spotted in Fort Lauderdale, BeBe decides to go after him and carry out a sting that may be a little outside the law. With any luck however, she'll be able to retrieve her fortune and put Reddy in jail where he belongs....

"Struggling to care for her sick father and raise her teenage children alone, a divorced mother spends the weekend at a North Carolina inn, only to meet a former surgeon running from his past. Adrienne Willis is 45 and has been divorced for three years, abandoned by her husband for a younger woman. The trials of raising her teenage children and caring for her sick father have worn her down, but at the request of a friend and in hopes of respite, she's...

Four years after losing her husband, twenty-nine-year-old Julie Barenson considers falling in love again and wonders if she should choose sophisticated Richard, who treats her like a queen, or down-to-earth Mike. But when she eventually picks one man, the other man's jealousy turns into a deadly obsession.

On a moonlit road in Hampstead, Walter Hartright is accosted by a stranger dressed from head to toe in white, who asks the way to London. Shortly thereafter he is overtaken by a carriage in pursuit of this mysterious woman who has evidently escaped from an asylum. He then unwinds a story of abduction, madness, false identity and shameful family secret.

Fiona Bristow, the only survivor of the Red Scarf serial killer who shot and killed her fiancé and his K-9 partner, is living quietly on Orca Island off the Seattle coast where she runs a thriving dog-training business, when her life is disrupted by artist Simon Doyle who is desperate for help in calming his wild puppy, and by the emergence of a copycat killer who wants the woman that got away.

Antique "picker" Eloise Foley, living in the backyard carriage house on her ex-husband's estate and waging a personal war with his elegant new fiancée, gets tangled up in a web of murder and mayhem when she tries to get a sneak preview of the goods that will be available at the upcoming estate sale of a noble Savannah plantation house.

Venetia Milton learns that Gabriel Jones, whose priceless artifacts and relics she has been photographing, has been reported dead; however, she receives quite a surprise when Jones winds up on her doorstep very much alive and afraid for his life.

Savannah's chief hostage negotiator Phoebe MacNamara struggles to deal with the threats of an unknown assailant, who is intent on striking fear in her heart, her agoraphobic mother and precocious seven-year-old daughter, and a local businessman who wants to pursue a romantic relationship with her.

Elenora Lodge accepts a position as the paid companion of Arthur Lancaster, the Earl of St. Merryn, and soon discovers that he is concealing dark secrets that involve her as his unwilling partner in a quest to catch a killer.