After an accident kills her mother and leaves her blind, artist Annie Adams and her three sisters--Candy, a supermodel, Tammy, a television producer, and Sabrina, a practicing attorney--decide to live together for one year in a New York brownstone, where they learn the importance of family and realize that even though their careers are on the right track, their lives may not be.

Jane MacGuire's uncanny resemblance to Cira, the femme fatale of ancient Pompeii and Herculaneum, lands her in trouble once again, this time with a terrorist who has made a deadly pact with a deranged madman who believes Jane holds the key to Cira's lost treasure.

Piper Perish and her two friends Kit and Enzo have long planned on getting out of Houston and going to art school in New York City together, but halfway through their senior year Enzo breaks up with her at a dance in the most public, spectacular, and embarrassing manner possible--and suddenly Piper's faced with a series of life and relationship-changing events that threaten her dream.