Nelson, R. A

Sixteen-year-old Ronald Earl King, who has been a charismatic evangelist since he was ten years old, is about to preach at a huge revival meeting on the grounds of an old plantation, where, with confusing help from the ghost of a girl he could not heal, he becomes engaged in an epic battle between good and evil.

A high school student enters into an affair with one of her teachers.

Seventeen-year-old Emma, having always felt cursed by her epilepsy, comes to realize that it is this very condition that saves her when she is mysteriously attacked and left with all the powers but none of the limitations of a vampire.

High school senior Carolina Livingston begins a passionate love affair with her new English teacher, Mr. Mann, challenging society's, and her own, ideas of what is right and wrong.

Sixteen-year-old Ronald Earl begins to doubt his healing powers in Texas when he learns that a girl he has healed appears later in another Texas town wearing the same blue dress. Ronald feels haunted by this strange appearance.

Since her adoption, seventeen-year-old Frances has lived a quiet suburban life, but soon after she begins falling for the new boy at school, she receives a summons from her mentally ill birth mother, who has just been released--after serving eleven years for smothering Frances's younger sisters--and still wants to kill Frances.

Sixteen-year-old Ronald Earl begins to doubt his healing powers in Texas when he learns that a girl he has healed appears later in another Texas town wearing the same blue dress. Ronald feels haunted by this strange appearance.