After being in detention with a girl called "The Freak," Megan finds herself torn between the developing friendship the two share and her involvement with a popular clique.

The Hartes and the Golds, long-time neighbors and friends, are not surprised when their children Chris and Emily fall in love, but the bond between the families is placed under an enormous strain when Emily is killed, leaving behind the question of whether her death was a suicide, or murder.

After attempting suicide, Kelly Paddik is sent to a "secure facility," and as she tries to find a way out, she has to come to terms with her memories of abuse.

Sixteen-year-old Cat St. John tries to come to terms with the growing evidence of her father's mental illness and his eventual suicide.

Jonah Doyle must deal with the physical scars left him when the family Doberman attacks him, the mental anguish of his mother's suicide, and the painful search for the older brother he never knew.

Sixteen-year-old Steve struggles to make sense of his mother's terminal breast cancer and his brother's suicide.

Aging rocker Judas Coyne, a collector of the macabre, pays a thousand dollars for a suit said to be inhabited by the owner's ghost, and learns only after the angry spirit arrives that he has been set up by the family of his last young lover who committed suicide upon her return home.

Jo Beckett, a forensic psychiatrist with the San Francisco Police Department, is hired to investigate the lives of several prominent people who committed suicide and discovers that an organization called the Dirty Secrets Club is behind the deaths and that a former member may be responsible for the incidents.

Sixteen-year-old Mary-Elizabeth "Mike" Szabo, struggling to understand her father's suicide and her own homosexuality, reaches the breaking point when she falls in love with Xanadu, an exotic girl who has moved to small Coalton, Kansas, from the big city.

Lila is devastated by the violent death of her twin brother Billy who was despondent over losing visitation rights with his children, and secrets from the past begin to rise to the surface when Lila's husband learns she and Billy lied about their parents' death and starts to investigate.