south carolina

Leaving her best friend and the familiarity of Seattle for the paper mill town of "Stinkville," South Carolina, twelve-year-old Alice, who lives with albinism and blindness, takes on the additional challenge of entering the Stinkville Success Stories essay contest.

Swarms of locusts, record-breaking heat, and devastating storms ravage Gatlin as Ethan and Lena struggle to understand and control the impact of Lena's claiming, which is even causing her family members' abilities to dangerously misfire.

In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.

In a small southern town with a secret world hidden in plain sight, sixteen-year-old Lena, who possesses supernatural powers and faces a life-altering decision, draws away from her true love, Ethan, a mortal with frightening visions.

"Tory and her comrades must track a new pack of rogue Virals who have brought on the attention of a shadowy government organization intent on learning the secret to their powers"--.

After her mother dies, Barrie Watson finds herself all but a prisoner on her aunt's South Carolina plantation, guarded by centuries-old ghosts. Barrie learns of the curse put on one of the four families of Watson Island, and the magical gifts given to the three others--but the three gifts have become compulsions. Then she and Eight Beaufort, her love interest, discover the secrets of the Watson heirs, putting their lives in danger.

In 1780 South Carolina, thirteen-year-old Maggie believes in the American cause, but after her father is seized by the British she is forced to live with her loyalist aunt in Charles Town--but when the British capture the city Maggie is determined to get information to Colonel Francis Marion.

Marnie comes back to the South Carolina low country at the request of her sister Diana's ex-husband, after his son returns from a sailing trip with Diana disturbed and refuses to speak, which forces Marnie to revisit the traumatizing death of her and Diana's mother ten years prior.

In 1759, after a band of fellow settlers fakes a Cherokee raid to conceal the murder of her family, seventeen-year-old Catriona "Catie" Blair embarks on a journey across rural South Carolina and through Cherokee territory to report the crime and bring the murderers to justice, while desperately seeking to regain her own sense of safety.

Anna Lutz Abbot's perfect life is thrown into a tailspin when her daughter returns from college a very different person, her ex-husband arrives, and her new best friend takes up with her father.