Hester Prynne is the adulteress, forced by the Puritan community to wear a scarlet letter A on the breast of her gown. Arthur Dimmesdale, the minister and the secret father of her child, Pearl, struggles with the agony of conscience and his own weakness. Roger Chillingworth, Hester's husband, revenges himself on Dimmesdale by calculating assaults on the frail mental state of the conscience-stricken cleric. The result is an American tragedy of stark...

Hadley St. Clair's life changed the day she came home to a front door covered in slips of paper, each of them revealing the ugly truth about her father. Now as her family falls apart in the wake of his year-long affair, Hadley wants everyone-her dad most of all-to leave her alone. Then she meets Sam Bennett, a cute new boy who inexplicably "feels like home" to Hadley. Hadley and Sam's connection is undeniable, but Sam has a secret about his family...

Seventeen-year-old Evie, devastated by her father's death and the knowledge that he was leaving his family for his pregnant mistress, finds strength through a prestigious photography class and handsome classmate Declan. "Evie Parker is devastated in the wake of her father's sudden death, but she knows something her mother doesn't: the day of his heart attack, her dad was planning to move out. He had been dating his twenty-two-year-old receptionist,...