The girl with straight A's, designer clothes and the perfect life-- that's who people expect Rachel Young to be. So the private-school junior keeps secrets from her wealthy parents and overbearing brothers-- and she's just added two more to the list. One involves racing strangers down dark country roads in her Mustang GT. The other? Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Walker-- a guy she has no business even talking to.
Trained since the age of three to be Daughter of the People, sixteen-year-old Evelyn Winters believes her underwater world of Elysium is perfect until Gavin Hunter, a surface Dweller, stumbles into Elysium and she realizes that everything she knows is a lie perpetrated by "Mother.".
When an arsonist begins targeting the town, Gabriel Merrick finds himself a suspect because he has powers he can't control, and only odd sophomore Layne believes he is innocent.
After graduating from high school, class valedictorian Julia travels to Poultney, Vermont, to visit her older sister, and while she is there she learns about long-held family secrets that have shaped her into the person she has become.
When Delilah, her mother, and her aunt spend the summer in Vermont settling Delilah's estranged grandmother's estate, long-held family secrets are painfully brought to light and Delilah finally learns some difficult truths about her family's past.
Reading the journal of the high-society girl he was secretly involved with for a year helps high school senior Colt cope with her death and come closer to understanding why she needed him while continuing to be the girlfriend of a wealthy classmate.
Former federal agent Cal Harper tries to uncover the ties between the biblical murder of Abel by his brother Cain, Superman creator Mitchell Siegel's father's murder in 1932, and an attack on him and his father by a man who is tattooed with the markings of Cain.
Wealthy Caucasians Dana and Hugh Clarke give birth to a child that has distinctly African-American traits; and while searching their lineage for answers, they uncover secrets about both of their families.
