Dan is a middle-aged divorced engineer living in an apartment complex. There's a young teen who's recently moved in. She's living with her grandmother and things are in a turmoil in her head, if not her life.
Emma Hutchins came to the city with her sister to pursue their musical dreams, but then Emma lost it all. Luke Thornton is a writer and knows Emma has a story. As Christmas approaches, they both wonder if they can get back what they lost.
Alex has always lived a quiet life with his family in a peaceful neighborhood, his days blending into one another with a predictable rhythm. But when his estranged aunt, Allie, moves back into the neighborhood after their grandfather's passing, his world is turned upside down.
A young officer in an alien planet’s military space force is sent with two other space explorers back to the supposed origin of mankind a millennium or so after it was thought to be decimated. Alpha, they called it. Due to extenuating circumstances, when she arrived on Alpha, or Earth as we know it, she was alone. Not knowing, and even fearing what she would encounter upon landing, it turned out pretty well. Pretty well for her and for what was left of Earth’s severely diminished population.
This is a sequel of 'An Island is Calling Me'. Don and Leeza continue their close relationship. I suggest you re-read the above story. It will give you the background of the initial meeting of the two and the challenges Don faced with Leeza.