Karen is a lovely kindergarten teacher from Mill Valley in Marin, California.  But, after her husband's death and retirement she is struggling to find purpose and what do with her time.  That is until the local SPCA fundraiser in the park sparks her interest in community engagement.  Not willing to let Larry and his skewed set of values shape her neighborhood, she digs in her heels to fight the power.  Only to find, the power she may be fighting against is love...

Where will our fortune lead?  Who knows but in the meantime everybody is eating at Aimee's family's restaurant, a no frills establishment in San Francisco's Chinatown.  The year is 2021, and as Aimee tries to find her own place, inside or outside her family, life circumstances push her closer to home and the issues she thought she could run away from.   As the world seems to fray around the small universe of the restaurant, Aimee and her eclectic cast will have to decide, do they reach out, or continue to drift further apart.?  Fortune Cookie.  

Ralph Eggers is 17 and can't help from pushing back against authority.  His small midwestern town and 'ordinary' family don't seem to hold his interest, and increasingly his respect.  But, while Ralph is making all the noise, other members in the family are secretly struggling.   Often under the radar, youngest brother Ryan causes heads to turn when his science fair project nearly burns down the school.  Sometimes it can be hard to see real trouble coming in the constant roar of false alarms.  

Bessie McDudd hates her name and never quite felt at home in her rustic background on the Irish countryside.  A childhood love of astronomy has landed her at a cutting edge space exploration company in Dublin.  Her parents, opposites in their own right, are fighting to keep their dairy farm as they resist getting pushed off their land.  Bessie's experiments at her work have her rethinking the vision of the future she thought was building, as she looks towards home to find direction in a time where everything seems to be spinning out of control.  The Milky.  

In a world plagued by violence on a personal and societal level, Vanesa and her oddball group of lab mates in Paris may have stumbled on the genetic markers for aggressive behavior.  Now her company wants to test a therapeutic to try and pacify prisoners in a pilot prisoner release program.  Vanesa's own son struggles with a mood disorder, and they both grapple together to figure out how far they are willing to go to protect humanity from itself.  Achilles Gene.