A series of related novels in which four young girls, Misty, Star, Jade, and Cat, who carry heavily guarded pain caused by their families, come together under the care of a therapist, finally baring their secrets.

Since her mother was institutionalized, sixteen-year-old Celeste has been in and out of orphanages. Celeste is overjoyed when Wade and Ami Emerson adopt her. But when she discovers Ami's real reason for adopting her - a reason that involves a sexual tryst with Ami's father-in-law - Celeste is terrified.

Alice, a teenager who enjoys spending time alone in the attic where her mother plotted the murder of her stepfather, decides to finally come out of her shell, resulting in a date to the prom and a confrontation with the shadows from her past.

When her parents are killed in a truck accident outside their poor Mexican village, Delia Yeberra is sent to live with her wealthy aunt in Palm Springs, California, but she soon discovers the dark underside of her glamorous new life as she become caught in a bitter battle whose resentment may be linked to a sinister secret, in the first volume in a trilogy.