"A novel set in Venezuela about the search for individual truth, love, and belonging, embodied in a fifteen-year-old girl"--Provided by publisher.

Katherine Forrester is sent to a very restrictive private school after the death of her pianist mother, from which she emerges to study piano in New York as a protege of the great master who taught her mother.

Isabel is upset by constant messages which are hostile to her, and Charlotte in worried that her friend Miss Pierce is gone for good.

Best friends Harper Waddle, Sophie Bushell, and Kate Foster decide to forgo their freshman years at college and pursue their dreams instead, while a fourth friend, Becca Winsberg, follows a more traditional path, but they all read the mid-point of the year not quite where they thought they would be.

Sixteen-year-old Katya Spiva, working as a nanny for a family in Bayhead Harbor, New Jersey, meets Marcus Kidder, a silver-haired gentleman and author of children's books, and he lures her into his life with his beautiful oceanside home, classical music, and lavish presents, never quite revealing what it really is he wants from her.

Seventeen-year-old Ronnie Miller is resentful when her mother insists she and her ten-year-old brother spend the summer with their estranged father in North Carolina, and while things get off to a rocky start, Ronnie eventually makes friends and begins to better understand her dad and why he wanted her to visit.