A police detective tracks a serial killer who is stalking young women on a beach front after each game that a baseball pitcher wins.

A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.

Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940s Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked son. Her fondest wish – just once before she dies – is to revisit Bountiful, the small Texas town of her youth which she still refers to as "home."

Set in the Napa Valley in 1895, an immigrant family struggles to keep their vineyards from industrialists.