Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected old money Stockton family, followed her heart, trading her job and her inheritance for motherhood but giving up far too much in the process;

Sasha, a middle-class New England girl, has married into the Brooklyn Heights family, and finds herself cast as the arriviste outsider;

and Georgiana, the baby of the family, has fallen in love with someone she cant have, and must decide what kind of person she wants to be.