The dead arise from their sleep in the cemetery of a small Midwestern town to tell their individual stories about an entire community caught in a web of scandal, sin, and vice in the early twentieth century.

"Carrie Winters has come home from Europe, glamorous fashion career behind her and her heart broken and finds herself drawn to grief-stricken Sam Winslow who is raising his nephew after the boy's parents were killed in an accident two weeks ago"-- Spirited, spontaneous Carrie Winters has grown up under the watchful eyes of not only her grandfather, Mick O'Brien, but the entire town of Chesapeake Shores. Now that she's home from Europe, a glamorous...

Searching for a topic for his school report, Chip goes into town where he visits the library, the grocery store, a construction site and more, hoping he will be inspired. Photographs show the characters depicted as dogs.

When thirteen-year-old Joelle, a star baseball player, moves to a new town where the only option for girls is softball, she starts an all-girl baseball league against the wishes of her school coaches and others in the town.