Talented songwriter Shawn Gallagher claims he is content with his life as it is, but his music tells a different tale. No one, including lifelong friend Brenna O'Toole, knows why he doesn't put his musical gift to profitable use.

Now that she's in sixth grade, Abby's discovering new friends and new talents. She's also discovering a major new interest: a boy in the seventh grade.

In the Age of the Mazonians, women rule through magic and men suffer. Xylina, in order to avoid execution, must use her magic to conquer the most glorious male Mazonia has ever seen.

Lucy, the only one of her friends without a boyfriend, meets a perfect guy, but soon begins to feel that she is being smothered by too much love.

In chapters told from alternating points of view, the love story of Nora and Timothy unfolds as the couple from vastly different backgrounds meet, fall in love, and find themselves caught in a murder mystery.

Lady Ivy Sinclair, in a hurry to marry before her father cuts off her funds, plans on hooking the boring but respectable Lord Tinsdale, but when his attentions are diverted, she hires a handsome man to impersonate a marquess in order to make Tinsdale jealous, not realizing the blue-eyed rake is in fact the Marquess of Counterton.

Darcy's distress over her boyfriend Hakeem's move to Detroit, her grandmother's increasing frailness, and other changes in her life, leads her to make a big error in judgment when she becomes involved with the brother of a young woman who is employing Darcy as a babysitter.

Gerrard Debbington, member of the charmed Cynster family circle, argees to paint a portrait of Lord Tregonning's daughter in the hopes of being granted permission to paint the Tregonning's seldom seen family gardens, but his wishes are forgotten when he meets the charming Jacqueline.