An executive with three children meets an actress after his wife walks out on him.

Divorcee Sarah Thompson meets William, Duke of Whitfield, while touring Europe on the eve of World War II. They marry and settle in France. When the war ends, Sarah and William buy jewelry from their neighbors to help the rebuilding effort, the beginning of a family jewelry business. When her husband dies and son Phillip moves aggressively to expand his role in the family business, Sarah struggles to control the simmering rivalry between her children,...

Bill Grant is a successful TV producer, but lives thousands of miles from his two young sons. At the same network is Adrian Townsend, a happily married woman. She becomes pregnant, but her husband doesn't want children and leaves her. Bill and Adrian begin a friendship that soon turns to love. While Adrian wrestles with the hope that her husband will return, can Bill win the battle to keep this new love alive?

Faye and Ward live through enough ups and downs for several lifetimes. A whilrwind courtship leads to a comfortable life fueled by Ward's family fortune. As the fortune vanishes, Ward's drinking and cheating compel Faye to throw him out.

The story of Nick Burnham, a young industrialist, and Lianne DeVilliers, the wife of an esteemed French ambassador, who meet by chance at the White House and again on a transatlantic voyage to Europe, where they begin an illicit affair; as war breaks out across Europe and Lianne's husband falls under suspicion as a Nazi collaborator, the pressure on their forbidden romance soon takes its toll, sending them to opposite sides of the globe.