Deaver, Julie Reece

Jamie is slipping into a world of her own. As her inner world starts taking her hostage she becomes terrified that she is losing her mind.

While working as an intern on a popular television comedy show produced in Chicago, seventeen-year-old Bess tries to come to terms with the loss of her mother, who committed suicide six months earlier.

Depicts thirteen-year-old Pokie's friendship with her older brother and the changes it undergoes when her brother falls in love.

Lissa, a seventeen-year-old art student living on her own in Chicago, must raise her eleven-year-old sister when their alcoholic mother becomes incapable of caring for her.

When a car accident kills her best friend Jimmy, with whom she has shared everything from childhood escapades to breaking into the professional theater scene in Chicago, seventeen-year-old Morgan must find her own way of coping with his death.

When a car accident kills her best friend Jimmy, with whom she has shared everything from childhood escapades to entering the professional theater in Chicago, seventeen-year-old Morgan must find her own way to cope with his death.

Since moving to Chicago, seventeen-year-old Jamie Tessman has been plagued by mind-slips and vivid daydreams about her best friend Webb. When her daydreams begin blocking out reality, her mother, and her new friend Morgan see that she gets help from Morgan's psychiatrist aunt.