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Ten months after his twin sister dies, with his family falling apart, Gray Thomas meets an unusual girl at the community college who makes him think life is interesting again.

Seventeen-year-old Quinlan McKee works as a "closer," a job which requires her to live in the homes of bereaved families and impersonate their deceased daughters in order to give them closure. When she accepts a long-term assignment as Catalina Barnes, Quinlan begins to bond with the deceased teen's boyfriend and uncovers secrets about Catalina's death and her own past.

Fifteen-year-old Francis, a leukemia patient, falls in love with feisty teen Amber as they undergo cancer treatments, but their relationship is put to the test when one of them enters remission while the other's condition worsens.

Seventeen-year-old Nels always wanted to be a knight in the kingdom of Cobblestown, but he was murdered. Now a ghost, Nels approaches the kingdom's heir, Princess Tyra, the only person who can see him, for help. The two quickly discover they are linked by a common secret and enemy. They embark on a magical quest to find an ancient needle that can mend what is broken before Nels becomes unwoven and disappears forever.

Explores the history of resuscitation and recent advances in science and technology that have allowed individuals to be brought back to life after being in a state of death for extended periods of time.

Collects two horror stories of irrational fears.

When a dark force overtakes the town of Oleander, Kansas and causes its citizens to descend into murderous madness, five individuals step up to confront the darkness and find a way to defeat it in order to save the town from itself.

Olivia Tithe, a sixteen-year-old self-styled artist, struggles to keep her sanity as she unravels the clues left by the ghost of her first love to figure out how he died.

Stepsiblings Tressa and Luke, close as children, fell in love as teens, and neither the disapproval of those around them nor even Luke's death can keep them apart as long as Tressa needs him.

The story of Ariel, a Middle Eastern refugee who lives with an adoptive family in Sunday, West Virginia, is juxtaposed against those of a schizophrenic bomber, the diaries of a failed arctic expedition from the late nineteenth century, and a depressed, bionic reincarnated crow.