A childless couple bury a box in their backyard which contains all of their wishes for an infant. Soon, a child is born, though Timothy is not all that he appears.
When 30-something Jesse returns to his alma mater for a professor's retirement party, he falls for Zibby, a college student, and is faced with a powerful attraction that springs up between them.
In small-town Iowa, an adopted girl discovers a talent for butter carving and finds herself pitted against an ambitious local woman in their town's annual contest.
Scott has been in and out of rehab for 10 years and is haunted by the ghost of his dead mother pushing him to return home to the family he once turned his back on.
The FBI hires Molly to go undercover at a college sorority, as she must transform from a streetwise private investigator to a sophisticated university girl.