V Valentine, the queen of meaningless hookups, meets the perfect boy after a run-in with a hockey puck, but when the unexpected happens, V makes a terrible mistake that could jeopardize everything.
After her sister Miriam runs away, Adie is left behind with their mother, who, convinced that their lives are in danger, takes her on a crazy adventure across northern California where Adie unexpectedly embarks on her own journey of self-discovery.
When eight-year-old Sophie vanishes during a weekend camping trip, a desperate search is launched to find the child, but Sophie has found refuge in a remote cabin inhabited by a reclusive woman who has her own secrets to hide.
Raised by her eccentric grandmother Poll after the death of her father and disappearance of her mother, Katherine Millar finds her sheltered life forever altered by a package that arrives on the eve of her eighteenth birthday.
Ellen Carter, who grew up on Wild Horse Island, returns there to bring her daughter Darby back to California, and when Darby finds a wild mare in the forest, she tries to convince her mother to stay.
Darby and her friend Cade, trying to locate Cade's mom Dee who has been missing since a tsunami swept the island, hope Dee's pony Honi can lead them to her.
Despite years of abuse at the hands of her drunken father, Baby Girl has always believed that she was special, partly because of her "gift" of seeing the future, until she and her mother set out to begin a new life on their own.
Alternating passages describe the experiences of a mother and her biological daughter when each is sixteen-years-old, as one becomes unexpectedly pregnant and the other decides whether to find her birth mother.
During a blizzard, Madison digs in the attic and finds letters and photographs which give her insight into her mother, and also uncovers a photo album that causes her to reexamine her long-ago friendship with Poison Ivy.
