vancouver (b.c.)

Thabo has been abandoned at the airport by the 'grandmother' who brought him to Canada. He doesn't know anything about her, but before she left she took his papers. An unassuming teacher, Ms. Nelson, has landed with her class after a trip to Japan, and spots Thabo sitting alone in the airport. She, along with her lone student left to be picked up, Brittany, attempt to find anyone who can help Thabo, and he ends up with immigration. But because no one can understand his language, they don't yet know who he is or how he arrived in Canada, his age is undetermined as he looks to be anywhere between a teenager and an adult, and, according to the government, all of this means he poses a danger, and could be deported.

Stevie Diamond and her partner, Jesse Kulniki, search for the kidnapper of a very important dog in an attempt to prove Jesse's innocence.

Nicole Charles, who wanted to be a real reporter but settled for a job as a society reporter, hears opportunity knocking when she discovers a dead body in an alley one night while covering a gallery opening and she finds herself in the middle of the biggest story of the year.

Stevie Diamond and her partner, Jesse Kulniki, discover that making a movie is not what it is cracked up to be as they investigate a rash of accidents that has people believing that the production is cursed.

After moving to Vancouver's lower east side with her mother, Ariel gets on the wrong side of a group of girls when she receives unwanted attention from their boyfriends, and when she is labeled a slut, Ariel tries to break free of the reputation she has earned.

Orphaned in 1929 Lizzie, twelve, is sent to a Vancouver logging camp where the camp boss, a scoundrel, gives her a perilous job while seeking ransom from her absent uncle.

"Twelve-year-old Kestrel must battle the evil twin daughters of a property developer and overcome her own worst fears to prevent the foreclosure of her grandmother's beloved Vancouver lodge"--OCLC.

"After trying to help a young girl he met while standing in line to ride the Death Drop, Zeke finds himself caught up in a mystery when the girl disappears"--OCLC.

Sixteen-year-old Angel struggles to free herself from the trap of prostitution in which she is caught.

Cast out by mainstream society, a gang of teenage girls known as the "Black Roses" rob ATMs, cook crack on stoves, and savagely beat down anyone who dares to harm them. Brutal and broken, they claw at the knot of darkness and violence that tightens around their lives.