Cassia Park lives in Los Angeles and is approaching her fortieth birthday. She works as a matchmaker for her family's business, One & Only. Cassia is the last in her line, dating back to when her family lived in Korea, who has the mystical gift of being able to read faces, see past lives, and identify a person's "fated" match. Cassie knows who her "fated" match is, but for the past ten years, despite knowing his name (Daniel Nam), she hasn't been able to find him. When she me

Jane Kim is the daughter of Korean immigrants. When the story begins in 2001, Jane is in her final year of law school in San Francisco, feeling dissatisfied with her career path, which she has pursued more to meet her parents' expectations than her own.   Her mother is also unhappy and has finally made the decision to move out of the family home in Napa, leaving her husband, Jane's father. Jane's domineering parents also affected her brother Kevin, a police officer who, like

The story is set in  Union Springs, a small town in Alabama, where a bortion is almost entirely banned. Nova Jones, a  t hirteen-year-old  girl, finds herself pregnant and too frightened to tell her mother. She turns to her school nurse, who brings her  after hours to Dr. Bria Gaines to end the pregnancy. Scared to have a follow-up visit, for fear of her mother finding out, Nova ends up collapsing and is brought to the hospital, where her secret is uncovered, along with the i

When we first meet Josephine Therese Marzynski, it is in January 1918, when the twenty-year-old woman has returned to Boston after spending thirteen months in Berlin. She is speaking with Eliot Robinson, who will assist her in writing her memoir about her experiences. The story takes us back to late 1916, when Josephine, a Jewish daughter of immigrants, is given the opportunity to travel to Berlin to study opera at the  Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory.  Despite Germany bei