Ryan, Amy Kathleen

Two teenaged sisters try to come to terms with the death of their mother in very different ways.

Waverly and Kieran are finally reunited on the Empyrean, but when Seth is mysteriously released from the brig the night of a strange explosion that sends the ship off-course, tensions between Kieran and Seth reach a boiling point, as Waverly ponders following her heart, even if it puts lives at risk.

"Waverly, Kieran, and Seth struggle to survive on board the New Horizon--and take down their enemies before it's too late"--.

After the death of her beloved older brother, fifteen-year-old Anna is forced to spend the summer with her grandfather in Wyoming, where she babysits for a traumatized young boy, learns secrets of her grandfather's past, and encounters a grizzly bear who seems strangely familiar.

Fifteen-year-old Waverly, part of the first generation of children born in deep space after her world was destroyed, questions her upcoming marriage to Kieran even though she knows she must marry and have children young in order to help populate New Earth, and, after she is taken hostage by the leaders of a sister ship who want to rule the planet and separated from Kieran, she finds herself at the helm of a dangerous mission.

Waverly and Kieran are finally reunited on the Empyrean, but when Seth is mysteriously released from the brig the night of a strange explosion that sends the ship off-course, tensions between Kieran and Seth reach a boiling point, as Waverly ponders following her heart, even if it puts lives at risk.

Part of the first generation to be conceived in deep space, fifteen-year-old Waverly is expected to marry young and have children to populate a new planet, but a violent betrayal by the dogmatic leader of their sister ship could have devastating consequences.

Kristi, a sophomore in an alternative high school, is aware that nearly everyone dislikes her, but begins to doubt her psychic insights after learning long-held family secrets and some classmates' true feelings.

Kristi Carmichael has always been able to read people's minds, but when her father returns home two years after he abandoned Kristi and her mother and Gusty, the popular boy Kristi has a crush on, starts showing an interest in her, Kristi begins to wonder if she can read people at all.

Sisters Zen and Xander Vogel are each dealing with the death of their mother in different ways, with Xander risking her future by experimenting with late-night parties, men, and dangerous drugs and Zen struggling to protect her sister and discover what she wants out of life.