Virgin Riverwhen it debuted late last year and are now anxiously waiting for its return. The show is an adaptation of a book series by author Robyn Carr and has shades of a Hallmark movie (in a good way!), so it's great for fans of romance novels. The Netflix series stars Alexandra Breckenridge as Mel, a midwife and nurse practitioner from Los Angeles who packs up her life to move to a picturesque but remote Northern California town after a series of traumatic heartbreaks.