Sherry, the brains behind her Aunt Cora's fame as the author of a popular syndicated crossword puzzle column, finds herself in somewhat of a dilemma when Cora is assigned the duty of refereeing a contest between the possible heirs of Emma Hurley's estate.
Feeling neglected by her father in Brazil and her mother in Washington, D.C., Georgia Hughes tries to cope with life at a boarding school in Connecticut by imagining relationships with John Kennedy and Miss Beard, the ghost of the former headmistress of the school.
In 1687 Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.
When David "Lizard" Hochmeyer's parents are murdered he sets out on a path to recovery and finding his parents' killer as he finds himself surrounded by a wide variety of famous people.
Investigative reporter Fran Simmons puts her own life in danger when she sets out to discover who really killed Dr. Gary Lasch, a murder for which his wife, Molly, has spent years in jail, even though she has no memory of the night of his death.
Poems tell the story of nineteenth-century teacher Prudence Crandall and the students she taught at her Canterbury, Connecticut, school for African-American girls before persecution forced its closing.
Simon Chase, a young marine biologist, studies and tracks marine animals, the effect of pollution, and other environmental threats. He becomes concerned when bodies begin to wash ashore and is faced with a malevolent creature whose hunt for prey is unstoppable.
Feeling out of place in her athletic family, artistic sixteen-year-old Jenny Fitzgerald, whose biological father was a sperm donor, finds her half sister through the Sibling Donor Registry and contacts her, hoping that this will make her feel complete.
