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Alison, a young lawyer, has been given her first murder case to defend. Her new client doesn't deny she stabbed her husband-- in fact, she's desperate to plead guilty. Alison has a doting husband, an adorable daughter, and a blossoming career-- but she drinks too much, and is deeply entangled in a toxic affair with her senior legal partner. As the murder case escalates and her personal life spins out of control, she learns someone knows her secrets--...

In the aftermath of horrific events, Noah and Helen try to come to terms with the consequences of their choices. Just when things seem to have stabilized, a chance encounter with someone from the distant past sets in motion a sequence of events that brings them both to their knees. They realize they must face their past in order to truly move on. And some years in the future, Alison and Cole's now adult daughter Joanie attempts to piece together the...

"Gina Frangello is a long-married fortysomething devoted mom when her life is turned upside down by the sudden death of her closest friend. Worn down from years of caregiving both her elderly parents and three kids, Gina starts to interrogate her own mortality and what she once longed for as a younger woman : a kind of sexual, romantic and artistic intensity radically at odds with her comfortable but emotionally stagnant marriage. Falling into a passionate...

"A magnetic tale of betrayal, art, and ambition, set in the world of professional ballet, New York City during the AIDS crisis, and present-day Los Angeles. Carlisle Martin dreams of becoming a professional ballet dancer just like her mother, Isabel, a former Balanchine ballerina. Since they live in Ohio, she only gets to see her father Robert for a few precious weeks a year when she visits Greenwich Village, where he lives in an enchanting apartment...

Lauren Abrams wants nothing to do with her mother, whose spurious testimony sent Lauren's father to prison for murder years ago. After a serial killer's confession to the crime restored justice, Lauren chose to live with her father and grandmother. Now Lauren has come home to the Sacramento family estate. Donna hasn't forgotten the past. She knows her estranged daughter has made a terrible mistake by returning to the estate. There's more to the story...

Middle-aged widower Sir William Hamilton marries Emma Hart, a beautiful dance hall girl, and introduces her to society leading to her scandalous affair with English Navy officer, Horatio Nelson.

"Margarita sospecha que su marido tiene un amorío con una de sus estudiantes. Elizabeth intenta escapar del vacío de una vida de privilegios en la Nueva York de los años cincuenta. Doris Dana, amor y albacea de Gabriela Mistral, vive una noche de alcohol y sexo con una amiga de infancia. Juliana, una pastelera octogenaria, ansía encontrar la identidad de una mujer que cambió el rumbo de su vida. Anne, conserje de un edificio, huye en busca de...

Emma Bovary becomes bored with her life and embarks on an affair.