mothers and daughters

After their mother's death, sisters Lisa, Jennifer, Amanda, and Hannah find solace in letters their mother left behind, encouraging each of them to lead the life they want and learn from each other's mistakes.

High school student Samara Tuttle finds a friend in her new English teacher, Mr. Halbrook, who inspires her to want a better life, until he vanishes and Samara learns he may have been hiding a shocking secret.

Annie, an ice skating coach, lives out her dream of competing in the Olympics through her daughter, Madison, whose life revolves around skating, until a tragic accident forces her to re-examine her life.

Alternating passages relate the experiences of fifteen-year-old English model Lauren with those of her guardian Nessa and reveal what happened to Lauren's beautiful--but doomed--teenage mother.

Horse handler and former CIA agent Grace Archer turns to the father of her child for help for the first time in eight years when the Middle Eastern magnate who wants her dead finds her at the Alabama horse farm where she has been hiding.

U.S. Marshal Roland Larson, having lived with regret ever since losing contact with Hope Stevens, a government witness against the Romero crime family, embarks on a desperate search for Stevens who has disappeared after learning the Romeros have gotten hold of the master list of people in the witness protection program and are auctioning off names to the highest bidders.

Amy Sterling learns that her boyfriend has been kidnapped, the police discount her suspicions about who took the young man, forcing Amy and her family to turn to a retired homicide detective, Devon Gray, to help them search for the suspect.

Seventeen-year-old Charlotte, her mother Karen, and her grandmother Nan, can't seem to keep from repeating each other's mistakes, and when Charlotte becomes pregnant by an irresponsible pretty-boy, the three women must depend on love to get them through.

Lucy Diamond, a high school freshman in Montana, struggles to find her own way in life after growing up with a young, discontented mother and a mostly absent father.

The author, abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of seven, describes her experiences growing up as a descendant of an upper-class white family with a long history in Hawaii, and discusses her attempts to locate her mother after she completely disappeared in 2002.