bereavement

When creatures other than werewolves begin prowling the streets of Junction, Jess Gillmansen watches new alliances form and others fall apart as hard choices must be made.

Caitlin wrestles with her feelings of devastation and helplessness after her friend Ingrid commits suicide, and she turns to her family and newfound friends for help while encountering love, broadening her horizons, and using Ingrid's journal to heal.

Amy Kuebelbeck shares how she and her husband made the decision to forgo extreme measures to save her son Gabriel after learning at five months pregnant he suffered from hypoplastic left heart syndrome and discusses how they prepared for his inevitable death after being born.

Following the suicide of her lover, art student Michael Faraday, Josie Tyrell, an art model and teenage runaway, struggles to come to terms with his death and to deal with his mother, Meredith, who holds her responsible for the tragedy.

Three days after she learns that her brother Finn died serving in Iraq, Honor receives a letter from him asking her to drive his car from Texas to California for a concert, and when his estranged best friend shows up suddenly and offers to accompany her, they set off on a road trip that reveals much about all three of them.

Betsy is sure that her summer job at a colonial reenactment village is going to squash her chances of ever being popular, but when he mother dies she finds the job, as well as unlikely friend Liza, and seductive surfer James, key to her survival.

The author recalls the summer of 1999 when her friend Carolyn Bessette Kennedy died in a plane crash with her husband John Kennedy, Jr., and the death of her own husband, Anthony Radziwill, John's cousin, three weeks later, and of love, friendship, loss, and survival.

Helps those who have had someone commit suicide heal by describing the phases of pain most often experienced including guilt, rage, and despair.