When an international assassin retires to a life of petty contract killings in a small suburb, she takes the police chief's teenage daughter under her wing.
When an old man's young neighbors' extremely vocal arguing keeps buyers from being interested in his house, he starts maneuvering to repair their relationship... at least long enough for him to sell his dang house.
When a newly-retired middle school teacher finds out one of her former students is dropping out of high school to care for his sick father, she moves in with them as the father's caretaker.
When a USPS worker finds herself the unintended victim of a mail bomb, she embarks on a vigilante manhunt to find the bomber who's been terrorizing the entire city.
When a 19th-century train conductor witnesses a murder along his route, he works with an outlaw sheriff to bring the murderers to justice before they kill him.
When a massive music star is bequeathed her dying grandfather's farm, she wrestles not only with the grueling labor, but with the jealousy of her less-successful siblings.
After tremendous success in growing artificial organs, a scientist manages to grow an artificial brain. When it turns out the brain is conscious and sentient, though, the scientist is forced to fight for its survival, rather than dissection.
When a scientist not only discovers time travel, but proof that he'll survive at least the next eight years, he goes on a crazy bender, supposedly to prove his theories, but mostly because he can.
When an international supervillain kills or captures all of the world's greatest secret agents, the governments of the world pool together to scrounge up a team that might be able to stop the villain's plot. If they're lucky.
When a fabulously wealthy family patriarch is on his deathbed, his dropout grandson (and sole inheritor) struggles to find a balance between taking care of his grandfather, and his past-due bills.
When the garbagemen cleaning up a dead mad scientist's house stumble upon dozens of working weapons and death traps, they claim them all as their own and become superheroes.
When disaster strikes and a tourist is stranded in the middle of the Amazon, she builds a makeshift raft and floats down the Amazon river in hopes of reaching civilization.
In a world where the only punishment for any crime is that crime being made public knowledge, after a put-upon wage slave kills his boss, his family is forced to flee from the boss's sons' retaliation.
When a supervillain with power over fire is implicated in a series of arsons and murders, the only person she could possibly get to vindicate her is her arch-nemesis, but he doesn't seem too eager...
When a librarian gets an odd gig at a secret government agency, she gets way less than she expected: there's nothing interesting, just a bunch of medical information that needs to be private. But when she starts asking why they're storing all of it, she finds herself on the run from government agents trying to shut her up before she's even found anything scandalous.