Retirement should mean long-awaited trips. For For 63-year-old Mebel, retirement means her husband of more than 40 years announcing that he's leaving her for their private chef. Mebel isn’t sure who's the bigger loss. Not to worry, Mebel has the perfect plan: she’s going to win back her husband. And if he wants a wife who can cook, she will simply go to cooking school. And where better to learn to cook for your husband than France. However, Mebel quickly learns that she has mistakenly enrolled in a culinary school not in  Paris but rather in England. Despite the less-than-warm welcome from her much younger classmates, Mebel manages to befriend Gemma, the breakout star of the program. And this unlikely friendship starts to show Mebel that maybe there’s more to her than being the perfect trophy wife.

After years of rejection, Fern’s debut novel has sold, and she’s ready to join the supportive online community of fellow debuts. But when she discovers that her high school bully, Haven, has landed a major book deal and will be debuting alongside her, old wounds reopen. As the pandemic forces everyone online, tensions escalate in their writing community. While Haven seems to succeed effortlessly, Fern watches her own career crumble. Yet beneath their polished personas lies a darker truth about their shared past --- one involving a lost friend, Dani, and secrets neither wants revealed. Fern isn’t the same person Haven bullied all those years ago. She’s learned that the best revenge stories aren’t written --- they’re lived. And she’s been plotting this one for years. What begins as an online rivalry escalates into a dangerous obsession.

Izzy Chen is dreading her family’s annual Chinese New Year celebration, where they all come together at a Michelin-starred restaurant to flaunt their status and successes in hopes to one up each other. So when her 73-year-old glamorous and formidable grandmother walks in with a stunning woman on her arm and kisses her in front of everyone, it shakes Izzy to her core. She’d always considered herself the black sheep of the family for harboring similar feelings to the ones her Nainai just displayed. Seeing herself in her teenage granddaughter's struggles with identity and acceptance, Magnolia Chen tells Izzy her own story --- of how as a teen she was sent by her Indo-Chinese parents from Jakarta to Los Angeles for her education and fell in love with someone completely forbidden to her by both culture and gender norms.

Influencer Meredith Lee didn’t teach Aspen Palmer how to blossom on social media just to be ditched as soon as Aspen became big. So can anyone really blame her for doing a little stalking? Then, Mer gets lucky; she finds one of Aspen’s kids’ iPads and swipes it. Now, she has access to everything. Would anyone else be able to resist tweaking things a little here and there, showing up in Aspen’s place for meetings with potential sponsors? Meanwhile, Aspen doesn’t understand why her perfectly filtered life is falling apart. If she doesn’t find out who’s behind everything, she just might lose it all. When Meredith suddenly goes missing, Aspen’s world is upended, and mysterious threats begin to arrive. But she won’t let anything get in the way of her perfect life again.

Life has been good for Vera Wong. Her teahouse is bustling, and her son, Tilly, has a girlfriend. All thanks to Vera, because Tilly's girlfriend is none other than Officer Selena Gray --- the very same Officer Gray she had harassed while investigating the murder at her shop. Vera comes across a distressed young woman who is looking for a missing friend. Fortunately, while cat-sitting at Tilly and Selena's, Vera finds Selena's briefcase. Inside is a file about the death of an enigmatic influencer --- who also happens to be the friend the young woman was looking for. Online, Xander had it all, including a burgeoning career as a social media influencer. The only problem is, after his body is fished out of Mission Bay, the police can't seem to actually identify him. Who is Xander Lin? Nobody knows. Every contact is a dead end. Everybody claims not to know him, not even his parents.

A struggling midlist writer, Jane feels trapped in an underwhelming marriage. There's only ever been one person she cared about: Thalia, her best and only friend nearly a decade ago during their Creative Writing days at Oxford. But then one night ruined everything. The blood-soaked night that should have bound Thalia to Jane forever instead made her lose her completely. Thalia disappeared without a trace, and Jane has been unable to find her since. Until now. Because there she is, her name at the top of the New York Times bestseller list: A Most Pleasant Death by Thalia Ashcroft. When she discovers a post from Thalia on her website about attending a book convention in New York City in a week --- “Can’t wait to see you there!” --- Jane can’t wait either. Jane won’t lose Thalia again.

Meddy Chan and her husband, Nathan, are spending Chinese New Year with her entire extended family. A former beau of Second Aunt’s shows up at the Chan residence bearing extravagant gifts. He’s determined to rekindle his romance with Second Aunt, and the gifts are his way of announcing his courtship. However, his grand gesture goes awry when it’s discovered that not all the gifts were meant for Second Aunt and the Chans. Of course, the Aunties agree that it’s only right to return the gift. But what should have been a simple retrieval turns disastrous, and suddenly Meddy and the Aunties are helpless pawns in a decades-long war between Jakarta’s most powerful business factions. The fighting turns personal, however, when Nathan and the Aunties are endangered, and it’s up to Meddy to come up with a plan to save them all.

Vera Wong lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco’s Chinatown. One morning, Vera discovers a dead man in the middle of her tea shop. In his outstretched hand is a flash drive. After calling the cops, she swipes the flash drive from the body and tucks it safely into the pocket of her apron. Why? Because Vera is sure she would do a better job than the police possibly could, because nobody sniffs out a wrongdoing quite like a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands. Vera knows the killer will be back for the flash drive; all she has to do is watch the increasing number of customers at her shop and figure out which one among them is the killer. What Vera does not expect is to form friendships with her customers and start to care for each and every one of them.

Meddy Chan can't wait to marry her college sweetheart, Nathan. Instead of having Ma and the aunts cater to her wedding, she wants them to enjoy the day as guests. As a compromise, they find the perfect wedding vendors: a Chinese-Indonesian family-run company just like theirs. Meddy is hesitant at first, but she hits it off right away with the wedding photographer, Staphanie, who reminds Meddy of herself, down to the unfortunately misspelled name. But Meddy realizes that is where their similarities end when she overhears Staphanie talking about taking out a target. Horrified, Meddy can’t believe Staphanie and her family are the actual mafia, and they're using Meddy's wedding as a chance to conduct shady business.

When Meddelin Chan ends up accidentally killing her blind date, her meddlesome mother calls for her even more meddlesome aunties to help get rid of the body. Unfortunately, a dead body proves to be a lot more challenging to dispose of than one might anticipate, especially when it is inadvertently shipped in a cake cooler to the over-the-top billionaire wedding that Meddy, her Ma and aunties are working. It's the biggest job yet for the family wedding business, and not even an unsavory corpse will get in the way of her auntie's perfect buttercream flowers. But things go from inconvenient to downright torturous when Meddy's great college love --- and biggest heartbreak --- makes a surprise appearance amid the wedding chaos.