After one of their classmates kills himself, seventeen-year-old Morgan, whose faith in God was already wavering, makes a suicide pact with some other students.

With the rent overdue and her bipolar mother missing, seventeen-year-old Adele is forced out of her home and although she tries to maintain the pretense of normality, things rapidly fall apart.

Feeling like she is the only virgin on the planet, a high school junior wrestles with questions about love and sex before ultimately choosing to give herself to God instead of her boyfriend.

The daughter of a pastor justifies going to drinking parties as helping others, disregarding the feelings of real friends.

"The girls of the Dating Game are back this time focused on the biggest date of the year--the prom--but will they discover their friendship is more important than any one date?"--

When Ramona learns that her best friend since grade school is a lesbian, she struggles to decide how to respond, knowing that people of her community, and even her church, have trouble discussing homosexuality civilly.

At the Carter boardinghouse for rich teenaged girls who are interested in fashion, the race for high school homecoming queen turns friends and roommates against one another, and, as the votes roll in, some of the girls grow smarter and closer to God, while others seem to make the same mistakes over again.

Shortly after her brother Zach returns from rehab for meth addiction, Samantha begins to have dreams about dangerous situations involving drugs, but the visions are so vague that she doesn't know who needs help. Then she has a vision of a burning cabin, and this time someone has been shot. Convinced that Zach is involved, Sam chooses to leave Detective Ebony Hamilton out of the loop, but Sam's investigation is getting too hot to handle. Includes a...

DJ's efforts to make sense of Christianity, prayer, and the Bible only seem to make it harder for her to deal with the inability of the girls in her grandmother's boardinghouse to get along, especially after Taylor begins flirting with Rhiannon's boyfriend.