When Claire Barclay receives news that her beloved stepfather has had a stroke, Claire and her husband, Art, leave New York and fly back to Scotland to care for him during the summer. When their visit makes clear that Leo is no longer capable of living on his own but determined to stay in his beloved old house, they offer to purchase the place from Leo and build him a cottage on the property. But Claire's old flame Jonas Fairweather (who has become...

"After heartbreaking betrayal, Carley is sent to live with a foster family and struggles with opening herself up to their love"--Provided by publisher.

When given blood transfusions by her step-father, Shay starts having odd visions, and while investigating the strange phenomenon, she encounters teenaged Gabriel, a vampire imprisoned by Shay's step-father.

Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands Piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is enough. So he cuts her off, and sends Piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late father's dive bar... in Washington. Piper hasn't even been in Westport for five minutes when...

Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York.

Sisters Nessa and Tanya Bloom are reuniting to clean out their childhood home so that their mother, Lorraine, can move to New Hampshire with their stepfather, Jesse. Tanya, an attorney, recently found out that she is pregnant--news that has her feeling confused and uncertain. Nessa is a receptionist at a psychiatrist's office and is involved with one of her boss' patients, an ethically murky arrangement. When Nessa and Tanya arrive home, they soon...

Karen and Zipporah are best friends, sharing everything, including a clever scheme when Karen's stepfather begins molesting her, but things get out of hand when Karen disappears on the eve of her stepfathers murder.

Josh, who has just moved to Vermont with his mother, stepfather, and new baby brother, must deal with the bullying of a neighbor boy and discovers that his dog, whom he hears talking with other dogs, is also facing a bully of his own.