As a child, concert pianist Julia Forrester spent many idyllic hours in the hothouse of Wharton

Ninety one year old Ira Levinson is in trouble. Struggling to stay conscious after a car crash, an image of his adored and long dead wife Ruth appears. Urging him to hang on, she lovingly recounts the joys and sorrows of their life together: how they met, the dark days of WWII and its unrelenting effect on their families
A few miles away, college student Sophia Danko´s life is about to change when she meets the young, rugged Luke and is thrown into a world far removed from her privileged school life. Sophia sees a tantalizing future for herself, but Luke is keeping a secret that could destroy it all

Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East coast to the farmlands of the Midwest, Carrying thousands of abandoned children whose fates would be determined by pure luck

Malvin Mars awaits his fate on Death Row. He was one of America´s most promising football stars until, aged twenty, he was arrested and convicted for the murder of his parents