A fallen angel, tired of being unappreciated while doing his pointless, demeaning job, leaves Hell, enters the body of a seventeen-year-old boy, and tries to experience the full range of human feelings before being caught and punished, while the boy's family and friends puzzle over his changed behavior.
When Nick and Allie are killed in a car crash, they end up in Everlost, or limbo for lost souls, where, although Nick is satisfied, Allie will stop at nothing--even skinjacking--to break free.
Hikaru learns his rival, Akira, has landed a place on Japan's team for the Hokuto Cup and battles for one of the two remaining spots, while the Go world is shocked by Akira's father's retirement.
Melanie, whose mind has been almost completely taken over by an alien named Wanderer, convinces the alien to search for her lost lover, who fled the extraterrestrial invasion, and tries to find a way in which she and Wanderer can coexist.
When Melanie, one of the last "wild" humans left on Earth, is captured, she is assigned to become the host of a spirit called Wanderer. As Wanderer probes Melanie's memories to reveal the location of the human resistance, Melanie shows the spirit visions of the man she loves, and soon, Wanderer can't help but fall in love with him too. The pair eventually becomes unwilling allies and they set off in search of the man they both love.
While living as an exchange student in Japan, David Matthews is possessed by a Japanese god with amazing powers and must fight desperately to save his host sister from a hoard of Japanese monsters.
Sky and Kristin travel to the seventeenth century to learn secrets from their ancestor, the witch Meg, then to the Battle of Hastings to use that knowledge to prevent their evil grandfather Sigurd from ever possessing another person.
In rural Connecticut, when seventeen-year-old Dice tries to exorcise a seventeenth-century man who is possessing her cousin Pen, she inadvertently makes him corporeal--and irresistible.
Jonah, a young thief, and his friends and Tersias, a twelve-year-old boy who channels prophesies, become embroiled in the machinations of a magician, a politician, and a false prophet, as well as in the magic of a strange alabaster box.
