Nick and Amy move from Brooklyn, New York to North Carthage, Missouri after losing both their jobs during the 2009 recession.
When Nick wakes up on his fifth wedding anniversary, his girl is gone.
Emily is a stay at home wife who worries about the next door neighbours. Something isn't quite right, and she is always getting their weird packages. She tried to befriend the wife from next door, and everything goes very wrong.
Adam and Amelia venture from London to the Scottish Highlands to try and fix their marriage. Every year, Adam gets written a secret letter from his wife, and they exchange traditional gifts.
For six months, he couldn't sleep. To cope, the Narrator starts attending support groups for various terminal illnesses and conditions. There he meets Marla Singer, who falls in love with both Tyler Durden and the Narrator. After the Narrator's flat blows up, he moves in with Tyler Durden and starts a fight club that spirals out of control.
June Hayward is a white author and friends with Athena Liu, who is Asian-American. After meeting up to celebrate Athena's new accomplishment, she chokes and dies in front of June. To cope, June steals the last unpublished novel that Athena had written and passes it off as her own.
Derek Flint lives with his elderly mother, and his Dad left when he was younger. He is a loner who sticks to a rigid routine, and struggles with human connection. To combat this, he spies on people through the CCTV he installs for people. However, it starts to backfire, and he starts to worry for his 'friends and family'.
The world has been encapsulated by a fog with glowing insects in it. It is being kept at bay by a fence to protect a small Greek island. The fence fails due to a murder. Now the people of the island need to find out who did it to be able to get the fence back up to protect themselves.
Jacob Wilson has congenital heart disease. Against the odds, he has a heart transplant - him and his family are ecstatic, he has a chance to live and fulfill his dreams. He slowly starts to change his life, and most would argue not for the better. Is it to blame for his change in behaviour and his new attitude?
Leila is the 8 year old daughter to a woman called Kelsey - who is a drug addicted prostitute. Colin sees the predicament and decides to intervene, but is what he's doing right? Will he be able to avoid a nationwide manhunt that is unleashed to find little Leila?
Jan is running away from her problems and into the woods. She has lost her job and her boyfriend, and has decided that a short stay in a cottage to focus on her upcoming novel will sort her life out. But when a creature comes knocking on the window, when will she look?
