Harper Dupree has pinned all her hopes on a future in fashion design. But when it comes crashing down around her, she returns home to Fairhope, Alabama, and to Millie, the woman who first taught her how to sew. As Harper rethinks her own future, long-hidden secrets about Millie's past are brought to light. In 1946, Millie Middleton-the daughter of an Italian man and a black woman-boarded a train and left Charleston to keep half of her heritage...

Alice runs a New Orleans flower shop alongside her aunt, but thoughts of her mother, who went missing, during Hurricane Katrina, are never far from her mind. After getting off on the wrong foot with a man who comes to the shop, Alice soon realizes their worlds overlap-and the answers they both seek can be, found in the same place. In 1861 Charleston, Clara is an abolitionist, unbeknownst to her father, who is heavily involved with the Confederacy....