Forty-year-old, never-married Eva Liles desires matrimony and motherhood. And even though she lives in small-town Fairview, which is a short distance from Raleigh, North Carolina, where she works and spends time socially, she remains unlucky at love in a city nationally ranked as one of the top ten places for singles.
When she meets the handsome Xavier Dupree, he seems to have everything that she would want in a mate except one thing...he's currently incarcirated as a first time felon. In Eva's mind involving herself in a relationship with him would be settling in the worse way.
When her church's most notorious gossiper catches wind of her love interest, Eva has one of two choices to make...embrace Xavier and accept ridicule and humiliation or deny her heart the it's always longed for....

Peony Shaw's sister, Caroline, has just died. Looking for comfort during this difficult time, Peony calls upon her daughters, Violet, Lily, Ivy, and Jasmine--the flowers in her life. When they are summoned, none of her daughters hesitates to travel home to North Carolina.

Beyond celebrating the life of their beloved aunt and offering comfort to their grieving mother, however, each woman has her own reason for wanting to come home. From a cheating husband to a criminal investigation, from baby mama drama to custody hearings, and from disrespectful children to a wedding that might not happen, each daughter is running from an issue of her own.

As the Shaw women offer each other strength and sympathy, they learn that sometimes the best medicine of all is just going home, and that peace and happiness can be found in the most unlikely situations....