The classic Little Women is retold in this contemporary version, bringing those timeless characters to the modern day and age. Which means that they also deal with the modern issues of our time. When her mother gets sick, Meg’s world flips on its head as she’s forced to balance motherhood, her sulking husband, and the need to take care of her mother. Especially as her father flits in and out of the picture, spending his time taking care of the local veterans. Jo, struggling to keep her head above water after getting laid off from her writing job, works long hours in a kitchen. Her time gains her insights to the world of food for her blog. But not everyone approves of food blogs. In the end, the two girls must find their way back to their roots to see the way home.
Jules is given a second chance. A chance to hit the reset button on her life after it’s fallen to pieces. There’s no one to pull her out of the dark hole she’s in since both of her parents are dead and her sister is still missing. All the ad says is that they need an apartment sitter. What she doesn’t expect is for the apartment to be in the building from her favorite book growing up with sweeping views of Central Park. And she makes $12,000 if she stays the whole three months. She just has to follow all the rules. While there, Jules becomes friends with a fellow apartment sitter, Ingrid, who tells her that the sitter before her left unexpectedly. When Ingrid does the same, disappearing in the middle of the night, Jules goes on a hunt to find her. She discovers more than she wants as the building’s dark secrets come to life.
What if there was a chance to change your life? All you have to do is carry someone else's baby for nine months. The idea is very appealing to Jane who has hit a series of rough patches and just wants to do right for her infant daughter. From divorce to her sick cousin, she can’t seem to catch a break. So when the idea falls into her lap, she knows it’s the only way out of poverty. Leaving her daughter with family, Jane enters her nine month stint. Things don’t go as planned and she becomes worried the longer she’s away from her daughter. She tries to play the perfect host until she’s left with no other options.
Ten long years and, finally, Oliver can walk as a free man. Detective Colbourne just has one last favor. Since he’s going into the private sector, could Olvier tell him what really happened that night on the dock? But it doesn’t come down to one single moment. There are seven characters in this play and Oliver takes Colbourne to the start where their lives changed forever. When the life of the stage bled into reality.
Will is running away from it all - his religion, his family, his past - to the prestigious Edwards College on the East Coast. Feigning that he fits in, he meets Phoebe, a glamorous girl who eats her own emotions for supper and hides her dark past in questions. She never knows why she stays with Will, more used to the one night stands of college life. But something keeps drawing them together until a former Edwards’s student, hailing the word of God, blows into Phoebe’s life. He claims he was sent by her father, but all he speaks are sinister messages that send Phoebe and Will on a wild journey.
What if your son had done it? What if your son had sexually abused someone and the proof was floating around? Not only does Nina struggle with the truth but what it also means for her as a mother. How can she bring about justice when her husband undermines everything she does? As Nina watches events unfold, she begins to see how their rich lives might be to blame. Lyla, living with her single dad, just wants it all to go away, to ignore what happened. She has a crush on the boy, and doesn’t this really mean that he likes her? How will she handle the ridicule at school? It wasn’t that racists, but her dad won’t let it go, won’t let Lyla fade into the background. Because there’ll always be another scandal.
Living her entire life in front of the camera, Essie must play the greatest role of her life - deciding her own future. First she waits. Waits on others to decide how to deal with her unplanned pregnancy and the PR nightmare to follow. Essie plays the game, placing tiny pieces along the way to curve the narrative around her will. She convinces her mother to let her pick Roarke, and then recruits the help of a reporter who has her own family crisis. Though Essie’s family thinks they’ve got it all figured out, Essie reveals the scandal of a lifetime.
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Three siblings. One born with a gift. The other two left to figure out their own place in life. After the collapse of the sugar cane industry in Hawaii, the Flores family tries to survive, even moving to a new island in hopes of better opportunities. Hope eventually comes when their middle son falls overboard and is saved by sharks. The story spreads, bringing a little wealth to the family, especially when that same son heals a friend’s hand after a bad firecracker accident. But one day, his gift seems to disappear, or at least his ability to use it. As he falls down a dark hole, his two siblings fight to realize their own place in it all when their parents only seem to have eyes for the golden boy. The three of them find their way to the mainland, where the touch of Hawaii is gone, and they struggle to keep on the paths that have brought them there until a tragic brings them running back to Hawaii.