Just before his sixteenth birthday, Felton Reinstein has a sudden growth spurt that turns him from a small, jumpy, picked-on boy with the nickname of "Squirrel Nut" to a powerful athlete, leading to new friends, his first love, and the courage to confront his family's past and current problems.

Lucas and Katya were boarding school seniors when they decided to have a baby. Seventeen years later, and after a decade of absence, Lucas is newly involved in his daughter Vera's life. But after Vera suffers a terrifying psychotic break at a high school party Lucas takes her to Vilnius, Lithuania, his grandmother's homeland, for the summer. As he uncovers a secret about his grandmother, a Home Army rebel who escaped Stutthof, Vera searches for answers...

Julia beat the odds when she escaped the kidnapper who hunted her in the woods for two terrifying nights that she can't fully remember. Her best friend, Liv, was in the woods, too. When Julia got caught, Liv ran away; now she's anorexic, and hooking up with an addict with an explosive temper-- is Liv punishing herself for getting away? It's one year later, and a dead girl turns up in those same woods. The terrible memories resurface, and Julia realizes...