The lead driver for a crew of drug runners navigates back roads in blacked-out cars, headlights off, guided only by night vision and instinct. Once a boy with dreams of something larger, those visions burned away in 1986 as he watched the Challenger explode—an origin moment that reshaped his sense of risk, fate, and what a life could hold. What began as freedom—speed, distance, a life outside the rules—has hardened into obligation.
Lily is torn between the echoes of her passionate, traumatic first love with a high school football star and the comfort and stability offered by her husband, Marshall Middleton, a renowned ornithologist. A tragic event during their youth in Portsmouth changes the trajectory of Lily's life, leaving her to grapple with choices that shaped her future. The story explores the role of forgiveness in society, the intersection of science and faith, the bond between sisters and the expansiveness of love.
The loss in 26-year-old Tyler Manion’s life has become overwhelming. The sudden death of his wife six months ago shattered his world. Tomorrow will be his last day at work, terminated from his corporate role at General Motors. Raising his not-quite-two-year-old son alone, he puts up a brave front, pretending to still have it all together.
Former minor-league baseball player Jimmy Bailey leaves prison after serving time for a crime he didn't commit. He can't wait to smell freedom again, to get his life back on track. On the day his sister, Debbie, picks him up, one of the prison guards attempts to harass her. She shuts him down, embarrassing him in front of other guards. This incident has a domino effect on both Jimmy's and her lives, leading to crime, kidnapping, stalking, and even murder. Will Jimmy ever get back to playing baseball? And will Debbie's professional life be the way she'd planned?
Private Investigator, Jimmy Quinn, rescues a child from a predator, posing as a pastor of an unaccredited church. With the child being safe and with his assailant behind bars, Jimmy thinks "open and shut", but...not really. Jimmy gets to know the child's mother and takes a special interest in the child himself, a 10 year-old boy, Tommy. Others notice more than a passing resemblance between the two of them, and while getting to better know Tommy's mother, Brenda, he unfurls a tangled web of lies, scandal malicious mischief and deceit.
At the height of the Cold War, Sienna Barrett was an unremarkable and otherwise anonymous child.
She would spend the next two years participating in the most closely guarded secret in human history. No president, prime minister, or general knew of the project’s existence until 30 years after every piece of it had been disassembled and the pieces incinerated.
And then she was abruptly sent home and given the impossible task of resuming her life as if nothing had happened.
Jed Springs’s high school production of the once controversial play, The Children’s Hour, had been a total success at the end of June in 1997; the talk of the community for all the right reasons. But frustrated with America’s puritanical roots, its skewed take on human sexuality, and goaded by his lover, Matt, to put up or shut up about it, Jed decides to workshop a radical idea, The Sex Show. By day, he teaches AP language courses and rehearses a production of Cabaret with his students. By night, his new play, The Sex Show, begins to take shape with a cast of fifteen eccentric LA actors.