Lia Katherine Ryan

Clint Hayes sets out across a ruined world to find medicine for his injured, pregnant partner. Inside the walls of The Community, he finds the hospital he needs—and a society that assigns its citizens their work, their marriages, and their worth. Given a new home and a wife he barely knows, Hayes begins recognizing strangers and sketching scenes he has never witnessed. Someone has made room in his mind for another man. Getting back to his own family means escaping before there is too little of him left.

Hannah teaches music and takes care of her family. Her twin, Lacy, lives for the stage. When Lacy disappears after leaving a troubling voicemail, Hannah begins passing herself off as her sister to find out what happened. Her detective husband is already investigating the murders of women in the local music scene. As Hannah gets closer to Lacy’s former boyfriend and a devoted admirer, the performance begins to change her. Each new clue pulls her further into Lacy’s life and makes it harder to keep her own from coming apart.

Reina Thompson has just opened her first Broadway show when her father’s sudden death brings her back to Tullahoma, Tennessee. She agrees to finish his community theatre production of Our Town, armed with professional standards, a legal pad, and very little patience for missed cues. But this cast comes with children, complicated lives, and a rather different idea of what the theatre is for. Between old friends, a possible romance, and rehearsals that refuse to run on schedule, Reina finds her father’s legacy harder to direct than she expected.

Grace and Jake’s Valentine’s Day argument gets out of hand when Jake calls a divorce lawyer. They soon decide to work things out, but Vincent Preston is already inside, and he’d like a quick bite. With a vampire loose in their house, the couple takes refuge in Jake’s prized old car and discovers a useful loophole in the rules about invitations. Surviving until sunrise will mean working together, improvising with whatever’s within reach, and remembering which purse has the car keys.

Tim comes home for his sister’s wedding hoping to win back his ex-fiancée, Amy. An accidentally hired stripper, a politician groom, and an inconvenient death were not part of the plan. Persuaded to keep the body hidden until after the wedding, Tim tries to keep the peace while everyone around him protects their own interests. With a freezer full of evidence and a campaign manager calling the shots, he may finally have to make a decision somebody else doesn’t like.