"One warm West Texas November night, a shy boy named Oliver Loving joins his classmates at Bliss Township School's annual dance, hoping for a glimpse of the object of his unrequited affections, an enigmatic junior named Rebekkah Sterling. But as the music plays, a troubled young man sneaks in through the school's back door. The dire choices this man makes that evening -- and the unspoken story he carries -- will tear the town of Bliss, Texas, apart....

"Stella Hobhouse is a brilliant rider, stalwart friend, skilled sketch artist-and completely overlooked. Her outmodish gray hair makes her invisible to London society. Combined with her brother's pious restrictions and her dwindling inheritance, Stella is on the verge of a lifetime marooned in Derbyshire as a spinster. Unless she does something drastic...like posing for a daring new style of portrait by the only man who's ever really seen her. Aspiring...

Confined to a wheelchair, James Lapp's unwilling to saddle Rachel King with his troubles, but a runaway Englisher girl unites them in a common goal.

Teens Victor Benucci and Madeline Falco sit in separate police interrogation rooms telling about the misfits who brought them together and their journey sparked by a message in an urn.

Kwan Wilson, seventeen, was a basketball star until he crashed his car, killing his mother and paralyzing himself from the waist down, and now, while living with his grandmother in Delray Beach, Florida, he gets an internship at a genetics laboratory where shark stem cells are being tested on rats to cure cancer and spinal injuries, and cannot resist injecting himself.

Fisherman Thorn of Key Largo investigates the beheading of a dozen dolphins. He discovers it was the work of a professor who needed the heads for experiments, using veterans as guinea pigs. All highly illegal, but the prof is not about to surrender.