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Hearts were broken, revenge was plotted--at least Sophie and Xavier are friends now. Now that fall is here, they're focusing on what really matters. But the world doesn't seem to want them to succeed.

Phillipa and Judy find themselves embroiled in a mystery when a classmate dies. As they follow clues and wrestle with their feelings for each other, they learn that the killer is closer to them than they imagined.

Thea's son was just seventeen when he went to prison for the murder of his girlfriend, a crime he has no memory of committing. Three years later, he's released to a world that refuses to let him move on.

It's February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. In the early hours of the morning after Valentine's Day, fourteen-year-old Gloria Ramírez appears on the front porch of Mary Rose Whitehead's ranch house, broken and barely alive. The teenager had been viciously attacked in a nearby oil field, an act of brutality that is tried in the churches and barrooms of Odessa before it can reach a court of law.

Elise knows every inch of the house. She knows which parts can take her in, hide her away. It's home, after all. The home her parents made for her, before they were taken from her in a car crash. And home is where you stay, no matter what. Eddie is a teenager trying to forget about the girl he sometimes sees out of the corner of his eye. But when his hotheaded older brother senses her, too, they are faced with the question of how to get rid of someone they aren't sure even exists.

Largely confined to his home by disability, Daniel spends the hours he's not online by observing his neighborhood from his front porch. One young woman passes by so frequently that spotting her out the window has almost become part of his daily routine. Until the day he's almost sure he sees her being kidnapped.

Twelve-year-old Norman Foreman and his best friend, Jax, are a legendary comedic duo in waiting. But when Jax dies, Norman decides the only fitting tribute is to perform by himself. The problem is, Norman's not the funny one. Jax was. There's also another, far more colossal objective on Norman's new plan, that his single mom, Sadie, wasn't ready for: he wants to find the father he's never known.

Kabul, 1978. The daughter of a prominent family, Sitara Zamani, lives a privileged life in Afghanistan's thriving cosmopolitan capital. But the ten-year-old's world is shattered when communists stage a coup, assassinating the president and Sitara's entire family. Only she survives. New York, 2008. Forty years after that fatal night in Kabul, Aryana's world is rocked again when an elderly patient appears in her examination room, a man she never expected to see again. It is Shair, the soldier who saved her, yet may have murdered her entire family.

One woman will either save an entire continent or completely destroy it in a captivating epic fantasy bursting with intrigue and ambition, questioned loyalties, and broken magic.

This book of interconnected stories depicts the chaotic life of a young boy on the run with his teenage mother. When Sarah reclaims Jeremiah from his foster parents, he finds himself catapulted into her world of motels and truck stops, exposed to the abusive, exploitative men she encounters. As he learns to survive in this harrowing environment, Jeremiah also learns to love his mother, even as she descends into drug-fueled madness.