After Nick Guest moves in with a member of the English Parliament and his family, he encounters grand parties and hidden alliances. Nick experiences his first romance with a young black clerk and later with a beautiful and wealthy woman who will change his life.
After stumbling into a bear trap surrounding a large marijuana grove on his neighbor's property, Travis Shelton finds himself drawn into a world of subtle evils and danger as he struggles to free himself from his neighbor's influence and protect his close friends from a painful conflict.
When eighty-year-old detective Arthur Bryant is killed in a bombing, his long-time partner John May finds a clue in his friend's decades-old notes of their very first case and hunts down a murderer who has returned after many years.
Howard Kapostash has maintained a restricted lifestyle since an accident left him with limited communication; however, when old friend Sylvia asks him to care for her nine-year-old son while she went through drug rehab, Howard must risk changes in his routine that could lead to more heartache.
Fifteen-year-old Marcus Oday, sentenced to prison after killing his friend Obie's father for desecrating his own father's grave, is rescued by Mims, an inmate who becomes his guardian, counselor, and friend even after they are released.
Jake Benchley defends an African-American man who was accused of rape and subsequently lynched, and, along with the dead man's son, becomes the target of the men responsible for the crime.
Lauren Cooper's devotion to her older brother Henry is shattered after a sudden tragedy, and she struggles to understand the person he has become and the impact his disease has had on her own life.
