George Turner, a recent widower, quits his job as a popular 800-word columnist for a Sydney newspaper. On an impulse, he buys a house online in a remote seaside town in New Zealand. He then has to break the news to his two teenage kids, Shay and Arlo, who just lost their mom and now face an even more uncertain future. When the family arrives in their new home, the colorful and inquisitive locals ensure Turner's dream of a fresh start does not go according to plan.

At the Federal Broadcasting Network, Bunny Watson is in charge of the reference library, which is responsible for research. Watson has been involved for years with network executive Mike Cutler, with no marriage in sight.

The network is negotiating a merger with another company, and to help the employees with the extra work that will result, two computers are ordered. Responsible for them is Engineer Richard Sumner, who is brought in to see how the library functions. As he gets to know Bunny, he is surprised to discover that she is every bit his match.

Hugh Knight is a renowned heart surgeon in Sydney, who believes he can live outside the rules. But after an incident involving drugs and alcohol, he is banned from surgery. Forced to work as a local doctor, Hugh retreats to rural Wyhope, his rarely visited hometown, which, he assumes, will be distraction-free. He couldn't be more wrong.

Crime reporter Camille Preaker, suffering from alcoholism and recently discharged from a psychiatric hospital after years of self-harming, returns to her hometown of Wind Gap, Missouri, to investigate the murders of two young girls. The assignment takes her back to her childhood home under the critical eye of her mother, Adora, a small-town socialite, which forces Preaker to confront some personal demons

The British Empire is in decline, the political world is in disarray, and a young woman takes the throne... a new era is dawning. Queen Elizabeth II is a 25-year-old newlywed faced with the daunting prospect of leading the world's most famous monarchy while forging a relationship with legendary Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.

Alexandra Boyd has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will help her heal after the loss of her brother. Soon after arriving, however, she helps an elderly couple into a taxi--and realizes too late that she has accidentally kept one of their bags. Inside she finds an box engraved with a name: Stoyan Lazarov. Raising the lid, she discovers an urn filled with human ashes. As Alexandra sets out to locate the family and return the item, she will first have to uncover the secrets of a musician who was shattered by oppression--and may discover that some knowledge is fraught with its own danger.

People of Earth centers on skeptical journalist Ozzie Graham, who investigates a support group to write about the members's supposed alien encounters. The more he digs into their oddball claims, however, the more he recognizes a semblance of truth to their stories and, possibly, even signs that point to his own alien abduction.