A writer moves from Chicago to an Oregon beach town to improve her tempestuous relationship with her recovering addict boyfriend but finds their romance endangered more than ever — only this time, it's her fault.

A depressed, middle-aged San Francisco writer gives his artificially intelligent alter ego permission to assume his personality in public, resulting in an unexpected boom for the washed-up man.

Dany returns to Haiti after six years in New York, prepared to tell his aunt that he has found the man who killed his parents. However, a new friendship with a stranger makes him rethink his obsession with avenging the past.