Melody Carlson

Thirty-something Gretchen Hanover becomes a first-time house-flipper. As ideas go, it's daring and genius. She'll take out a short-term loan, buy a fixer-upper, renovate it, resell it, and use the profit for an adorable house of her own. But Gretchen's plans to flip quickly flop when the house turns out to be in worse shape than she expected. She is relying on her retired contractor-father, but he wants to draw in his carpenter friend Noah Campbell....

Honor student and future journalist Sophie, a seventeen-year-old senior, was pressured to break her purity pledge and fears she is pregnant, but is unable to go to her parents, friends, pastor, or even God for help.

When Jessica LeCroix, a fellow teammeber on Ramie Grant's basketball team, reveals she is a lesbian, the rest of the girls quickly begin to attack Jessica, and Ramie struggles to do the right thing and defend Jessica and her lifestyle.

Sixteen-year-old Elise thinks starting her new high school knowing popular Asher will make things easier, but not only does she develop a crush on him, she gets on the wrong side of his girlfriend and finds herself accused of "sexting."

Kayla Henderson is missing, and everyone, including Samantha McGregor, assumes she ran away. But then Samantha has a vision where Kayla is tied up with duct tape over her mouth. Freaked by the image, Samantha wonders if Kayla is alive or dead? Was the vision real or just a silly dream? If Kayla really is in danger, then time is running out!

Teen Samanatha McGregor trusts in God and her friend Oregon police detective Ebony Hamilton to work things out when she has three seemingly separate visions involving her mother's new boyfriend, a terrorist act at a gala event, and a troubled youth.

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.

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

A Mexican-American high school senior deals with the separation and divorce of her parents and their effects on her relationship with them and with God.

Ruth Wallace struggles to hide the scars on her arms and the fact that she cuts herself from her friends and family, but when her boyfriend and best friend begin to get suspicious, Ruth realizes she must find a new way to cope with her disastrous life.