When a night-shift 911 dispatcher hears her missing sister on a call, she has one hour to trace it before the kidnapper kills again.
A grieving widower moves into a smart home that learns to mimic his late wife's voice - and it doesn't want him to leave.
A pathologically honest wedding planner must fake an engagement to win the biggest contract of her career.
After a stroke leaves her father unable to speak, an estranged daughter must run his failing diner before the bank takes the only home she has left.
An engineer stranded on a terraforming station discovers the colonists she's waiting for were never coming.
Inside the last drive-in theater in Arizona, three generations fight to keep it alive for one final season.
Each names a specific protagonist, a trigger, a goal, a ticking clock or stake, and an ironic hook.