Aguirre, Ann

Deuce struggles for respect in a new topside town so she volunteers for patrol duty, and ends up protecting the topside citizens from an unexpected upsurge in Freak activity.

Sage has learned to substitute causes for relationships, and it's working just fine; until Shane Cavendish strolls into her math class. He's a little antisocial, a lot beautiful, and everything she never knew she always wanted.

Edie Kramer has leaped back to put things right and save the boy she loves. Alone in the wrong time stream, she must reinvent herself and square off against dangerous creatures determined to win this mortal match once and for all. But righting past wrongs carries fresh dangers. As she navigates a new school and tries to put Kian on a different path, she also battles powerful enemies who will stop at nothing to keep her from derailing their deadly schemes. With few allies and her first love treating her like a stranger, Edie faces the most dangerous enemy of all--time itself. Yet she's come a long way from that dark night on the bridge, and when her back's to the wall, she'll go down fighting.

Edie begins a desperate attempt to fulfill the terms of Kian's six-month deal to save him from being sacrificed, an effort that puts her under the control of the mysterious Harbinger's aegis and causes her to be targeted by mercenary monsters.

Sixteen-year-old Sage Czinski is known as "Princess Post-it" for her habit of leaving encouraging notes on the lockers of classmates having a bad day--she does it to hide a painful past. When she meets new kid Shane, and learns he's living alone, she tries to help him and the two grow close. When both their secrets finally come out in a showdown with a bully, the teens learn that they can survive most anything.

Sirantha Jax has the J-gene, which permits her to "jump" faster-than-light ships through grimspace. Her final mission takes her to La'heng, a planet subjugated during first contact. Since then, the La'hengrin homeworld has been occupied by foreign conquerors, but all that is about to change. Now, as part of a grassroots resistance, Jax means to liberate the La'hengrin.

Agreeing to join the mysterious Kian's magical faction to exact revenge on a group of bullies who have tormented her, Edie transforms into a beautiful girl and begins to sabotage the bullies' inner circle only to discover dark truths about Kian's world.

Handler Corine Solomon, who can touch an object and know its history, travels with her ex-boyfriend Chance back home to Kilmer, Georgia in order to solve the mystery of her mother's death and the origins of her psychic powers.

The Huntress Duece is drawn to her new partner, Fade, a mysterious boy who is not afraid to break the rules of the elders, and as she learns of the elders' deceptions, she and Fade push the enclave to test their faith and protect themselves from unexpected dangers.

Deuce attempts to raise an army and lead the refugees of Salvation to safety, after the town was destroyed by a horde of Freaks, and along the way, she tries to help Fade recover from post-traumatic stress disorder.