The wealthy fashion students in Mrs. Carter's boardinghouse spend a quiet spring break in Florida until the boys from Crescent Cove arrive and heiress Eliza goes missing.
Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.
The Dare family heads to Florida to seek their fortune in oranges after the death of their mother, but when the local sheriff tries to ban them from the all-white school, it takes a court case that will divide the town to determine their fate.
Army Special Agent John Puller investigates the death of his aunt in Paradise, Florida, believing it was not an accident and she knew about a conspiracy being hidden behind the beauty of the Golf Coast community.
Former hotshot investigative reporter Jack Tagger, now writing obituaries for a South Florida daily, sees a chance to reignite his career in the suspicious death of Jimmy Stoma, front man for the rock group Jimmy Stoma and the Slut Puppies.
Courtney Carmichael, her younger brother, and her depressed, newly-divorced, out-of-work mother move from New Hampshire to Florida into a decrepit house on Cemetery Street, where spooky occurrences make the family feel increasingly unsettled.
