"Crippled with guilt after causing a horrific accident two years earlier, sixteen-year-old Bett's life is a series of pluses and minuses. But when the pluses become too much to outweigh the minuses, Bett is forced to confront her self-harming behavior"--Provided by publisher.
Fifteen-year-old Mia's scarred face is a constant reminder of the car crash that killed her sister, but a summer at her grandmother's Manhattan apartment and new friends help her find happiness again.
Reeling from the repercussions of a prank gone wrong, Audrey takes the unexpected opportunity to do her day over, which allows her to see more about the day and forces her to make serious changes to how she goes forward.
Twelve-year-old Jonathan Grisby has been sent to the Slabhenge Reformatory School for Troubled Boys, a former lunatic asylum which is currently run by a sadist who enjoys punishing the boys and setting them against each other; but when a lightning strike kills all the adults the boys find themselves suddenly free--and trapped on Scar Island which seems to be sinking into the ocean.
Walter Huff, an insurance salesman, the suburban wife of a wealthy client, Phyllis Nirdlinger, conspire to trick Phyllis' husband into signing an accident insurance policy that pays double indemnity for railroad accidents.
Ellory's once inseparable group of friends are torn apart by secrets and deception, but when a shocking incident changes their lives forever, Ellory finds that even in the present the past is everywhere.