Sick of living in the shadow of her seven-year-old pageant queen sister who is praised for her looks, Lexi resolves to get a makeover when she determines her personality just isn't enough to garner the attentions of boys.

When her father goes away on a business trip, Rebecca is sent to post-Katrina New Orleans to stay with her aunt. Ignored by the snooty girls at her new prep school, Rebecca finds friendship with Lisette, a ghost in the famous Lafayette Cemetery. Through Lisette and new friend Anton, Rebecca learns more about the past and present of New Orleans, and uncovers startling truths about her own history.

Fifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her sixteen-year-old mistress, the Lady Saren, shares Saren's years of punishment locked in a tower, then brings her safely to the lands of her true love, where both must hide who they are as they work as kitchen maids.

Jennifer Harris, years after being the tormented outsider on the playground, has reinvented herself into Jenna Vaughn, a popular girl with what seems to be the perfect life, but when a childhood friend re-enters her life, she is forced to confront the most traumatic event of her past and question who she really is.