Bridget Jones, a thirty-something Londoner who spent a year trying to lose weight, quit smoking and find love, discovers that her charming boss Daniel Cleaver is a cad and that the stiff lawyer Mark Darcy is the man who truly loves her.

Mia Thermopolis, a fourteen-year-old New Yorker who learns she is the heir to the throne of the small European country of Genovia, accepts her role.

Rosie Dunne and Alex Stewart, best friends since childhood who kept missing their chance at love for decades through misunderstandings, marriages and distance, finally get together in their fifties.

Holly Kennedy, whose husband Gerry died of a brain tumour, follows the monthly letters he left her, each ending “P.S.

Francesca Johnson, an Iowa farm wife, chooses to stay with her husband and children rather than leave with Robert Kincaid, the photographer she fell in love with during four days in 1965.

Tom Sherbourne, a lighthouse keeper who with his wife Isabel kept a baby that washed ashore in a boat with a dead man, confesses after learning the baby’s real mother, Hannah Roennfeldt, is alive.

Juliet Ashton, a London writer who visits Guernsey to learn about the islanders’ book club formed during the German occupation, learns that their founder, Elizabeth McKenna, died in Ravensbrück concentration camp.

Maya Andersson, fifteen, who was raped by the town’s star hockey player Kevin Erdahl, is shunned by much of Beartown when she reports it.

Miss Marple reveals that “Letitia Blacklock,” the kindly owner of Little Paddocks, is really her sister Charlotte, who took Letitia’s identity after Letitia died so she could inherit a fortune from Letitia’s old employer, Randall Goedler.

Hercule Poirot reveals that Nick Buckley, the young owner of End House who claimed someone was trying to kill her, is herself the murderer.