James Patrick Donnelly flees to Florida's Gulf Coast after a messy divorce and joins a group of Vietnam veterans, where he is reunited with a soldier he knew in the jungles of Southeast Asia.
Annie Powers, who had dissociated from the tragedy of her old life as Ophelia March, lives under the protective love of her husband Gray but starts to experience strange memories after her psychologist is murdered and a familiar figure appears on the beach.
Frank Cole is called in to investigate the hit-and-run dead of a young man, only to become convinced that the man was murdered and that the case is tied to major corruption in local industry.
A fictional narrative in which Fran Benedetto, a woman who was abused by her husband, examines the reasons why she stayed in her marriage for so long, and ponders whether leaving was the right thing to do.
Summer's winter break is made miserable when her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend show up everywhere she goes in the Florida Keys, which only serves to remind her how much she misses him.
Carmen is turning fifteen and her friends Sarita, Alicia, Jamie, and Gaz plan to throw her a quincea?era; but when the group decides to join a reality show competition, Carmen feels like her party is becoming less important.
Fifteen-year-old Miranda's summer job as au pair to a ten-year-old piano prodigy proves to be as challenging as keeping out of her stepmother's way, passing her driving test, and holding her boyfriend's interest when his former girlfriend returns.
Traces the history of St. Augustine, Florida, from its founding and development as a Spanish colony and military outpost in 1565 through the early eighteenth century, and discusses the impact of European colonization on the native Timucuan Indians.
