Having given up his privileged life for the freedom to make his own decisions, fourteen-year-old Linus escapes the drudgery of Realm Two and joins with others to battle the power behind the Great Processor.

In 2036 kidnapping rich children has become an industry, but when thirteen-year-old Charity Meyers is taken and held for ransom, she soon discovers that this particular kidnapping i

Callum and Sephy played together as small children, and their love is forbidden, now he is a second class citizen, a member of the naughts, and she is a cross, a part of the ruling elite, but when Sephy and her mother are nearly caught in a terrorist bombing and Callum's father is the prime suspect, more than there love is tested.

First-generation Basque fisherman Conrad Labarde discovers the body of a young woman caught up in his nets off the coast of Long Island and joins the investigation with Deputy Tom Hollis to find the truth among the privileged families who reside there.

Illiterate Londoner Danny Cartwright, framed for murder by four upperclass Cambridge University students who stabbed the victim during a bar altercation, has the good luck to share a prison cell with Sir Nicholas Moncrieff who teaches him to read and provides him with the means by which to escape and take revenge against his persecutors.

The lives of two stepbrothers, one from a life of privilege and the other in a life of hardship, explore the true meaning of fortune when they are reunited after years being apart.

Charlotte Simmons is a brilliant girl from a very poor, very strict Appalachian mountain family. She finds her way to a top college where she hopes to live the life of intellectual pursuits. But when she arrives at Dupont, an elite University in Pennsylvania, she finds that all anyone cares about is sex, status, and drinking. Desperately lonely and unhappy, she goes further and further trying to fit into this new world, with terrible results.

Kirsten and Walk, seventh-graders at an elite private school, describe how race, wealth, weight, and other issues shape their relationships as they and other misfits stand up to a mean but influential classmate.