S. L. Rottman

Seventeen-year-old Sandro, having always lived in poverty with his mother in a wealthy ski resort town, finds his life transformed when the father he has never met suddenly returns and wants to be part of the family.

Skye, a high school junior, tries to find the time for both family obligations and personal interests, which include caring for her brother who has Down's Syndrome, dating her first boyfriend, and swimming competitively.

James knew that becoming a superhero would change his life—he just thought it would change for the better.He didn't know that being a superhero meant never seeing the woman he loved again. He never realized he would feel powerless as super-powered psychotics trashed the city, always one step ahead of him. He never once imagined that he would spend many a sleepless night mourning all those poor souls he couldn't save.Then again, James wasn't your typical superhero. They kidnapped him, drugged him, took away his name and his past, and then controlled when he could soar into action. He could lift buildings, withstand a hailstorm of bullets and could soar into the deepest recesses of space, all without suffering a scratch.Why, then, did he feel so powerless?

Eager to regain lost prestige, suspended and nearly disbarred attorney Charley Sloane agrees to defend a former lover's stepdaughter, charged with murdering her wealthy father, despite the fact that she has already confessed to authorities.

After moving to Minot, North Dakota, with his mother, the first female base commander, Air Force dependent Stu Ballentyne gradually becomes aware that something terrible is going on in his neighbor's house.

After their parents' death in an automobile accident, two teenage brothers are sent to Colorado to live with an estranged uncle, owner of a white-water rafting business.

Seventeen-year-old Stetson meets the sister he never knew he had, and together they try to make sense of their pasts.