Dolly Parton's Heartstrings

Emily (Kimberly Williams-Paisley) befriends attractive young bartender/singer-songwriter Jolene (Julianne Hough) at a local honky-tonk bar and hires Jolene as her son’s guitar teacher. But with her own marriage to Aaron (Dallas Roberts) stuck in a rut and Jolene’s revelation that she doesn’t shy away from dating married men, Emily becomes increasingly insecure.

When Tyler Meegers (Andy Mientus) returns to his hometown for his sister’s wedding, he’s hiding a secret from his family; he’s gay. But Tyler isn’t the only family member hiding a secret or struggling and amid the stress of the wedding, tensions start to boil over.

When her partner Tom’s (Gerald McRaney) birthday is around the corner, Ellie (Delta Burke) decides to invite Tom’s estranged children in an attempt to finally reconnect a family that’s been broken up for decades. But Tom and his children might not be willing to face their past.

Lucy Jane (Sarah Shahi), Monica (Jessica Collins), Bitsy (Tammy Lynn Michaels) and Scarlett (Rochelle Aytes) have been best friends since childhood. Although they used to share everything, their lives have taken unexpected turns and, over the course of a weekend, the friends find out there is a lot to catch up on.

In 1958, Delilah Covern (Holly Taylor) accepts a marriage proposal from Lincoln Dollarhyde (Shane Paul McGhie), but Delilah’s father cannot accept an interracial relationship; especially after Lincoln voices support for controversial school teacher Helen Cunningham (Mary Lane Haskell). Soon, however, an even bigger challenge presents itself when Delilah discovers she is pregnant.

A recent widower Logan sees a vision of his wife Harper who encourages him to take a trip to their old home, Sugar Hill to see his father. Logan makes amends with his estranged father. Logan and vision Harper recount their vows. The story of their life is shown in flashbacks. They had been childhood friends, but were separated when Logan’s father was arrested and he was sent off to live with his grandmother. They are reunited in their teenage years when Logan comes back to town. The two date and fall in love. Logan’s father descends into abuse and alcoholism. Logan is scouted by a minor league baseball team and has a big fight with Harper before he leaves for training and accidentally hits her and once again the two don’t see each other for a while. The two meet again when Logan attends a poetry reading being done by a now pregnant Harper who is now planning on raising it alone. Logan confesses his feelings to her and proposes which she accepts and they marry. Present day, Logan calls his two grown children and agrees to take them to Sugar Hill and he spreads his wife’s ashes on the hill.

To avoid an arranged marriage, Maddie Hawkins decides to run off and have her own adventures. At her ranch, she meets horse thief/outlaw JJ Sneed and the two ride up north. Meanwhile, bounty hunter Dick Fletcher begins looking for JJ and Maddie. Maddie opens up to JJ about her parent’s death and JJ offers Maddie a position to be his assistant outlaw. The two also develop an attraction with one another. During one of the robberies, Maddie is forced to shoot the sheriff when the sheriff injures JJ and they end up losing the money. To redeem herself, Maddie organizes a train robbery. She also breaks JJ’s old partner Samaron Rose out of jail to assist them. Instead, JJ and Samaron tie Maddie up and leave her. Fletcher finds her and reveals that JJ is a murderer who has been secretly killing people behind Maddie’s back. Maddie flees Fletcher to go after JJ. She holds JJ at gunpoint allowing Samaron to flee. She then blows up the beaver dam and JJ’s share of the money and shoots him injuring him and leaving him for Fletcher who agrees not to turn her in.

Genevieve Carson is a young DC lawyer who is sent back to her home town to convince a strange mountain woman Mary "Bones" Shaw rumored to be a witch to stop advising people not to sell their land to her clients. Meanwhile, a young boy Jonah is forced to do Bones’ chores by her for sneaking on her land previously. Genevieve offers to buy the land under the pretense that she stop practicing her clairvoyance, but Bones refuses. Genevieve serves Bones with a civil suit which causes Bones to appoint Jonah’s father, Landon Rayfield, her lawyer and he threatens to file a counter suit for defamation of character and intends to prove Bones’ clairvoyance. To ensure they win the case, Genevieve’s client hires Alex, a private investigator, to dig up dirt on Bones. Genevieve is wary about using the evidence since she thinks they can win without it. Knowing she will be fired and blacklisted unless she uses it, she reveals it: personal tragedy that has struck Bones such as a house fire that killed her parents and the fact that she was raped and gave birth to a child and that if she was truly clairvoyant, she would have used her abilities to predict and avoid the tragedy. Landon then is able to get Bones to use her abilities to reveal the reason why Genivieve’s clients want Bones’ land: the company is planning to strike the land of its coal which would leave the land and town desolate. Horrified by everything she has done and now knows, Genivieve leaves her client and the company withdraws meaning Bones gets to keep her land. Genevieve realizes that she is the daughter of Bones and that her visions were events from Bones’ life. She goes to Bones and they have a tender moment and forgive one another for their past activities. It is also hinted that Genevieve and Landon might strike up a relationship.