The rigid moral codes held by mid-twentieth-century preacher Samuel Lake are called into question when his twelve-year-old daughter and his neighbors hide a young boy from his abusive father.
Benjy's childhood in rural Arkansas is enriched by the special times he spends with his grandfather, but it is not until his grandfather's death that an old family secret is revealed.
Orphaned Kat McBride, nearly seventeen, must leave California to live with her grandfather in small-town Arkansas, where she is drawn into a paranormal world of feuding werewolf clans.
A teenage boy saves a grown man from drowning and must overcome his resulting fear of water to rescue his best friends during a heavy flood in rural Arkansas.
Terri has lived with Grandmother Ollie since her mother passed away in childbirth, and her grandmother's sixth sense has always been correct, so when Grandmother Ollie suspects something is not right in Terri's life, she sets out to help her granddaughter choose the right path.
Sixteen-year-old Megan Berry learns the secret of why she is such a powerful Settler, gets help from a new friend in battling a siege from a zombie army, and tries to reach second base with her boyfriend, Ethan.