Several years after Rose Campbell was adopted by her uncle Alec, she and Phebe return from an extended trip to Europe, now young women ready to make their entrance into society. Though her uncle disapproves of fashionable society, Rose makes a deal with him: she'll have three months to attend parties and explore courting her way before she returns to his serious way of living.

Living with her aunt's family in Mansfield, Massachusetts, for a few months before turning eighteen and starting college, Edie is torn between Sebastian, the boy next door, and playboy Henry.-- Mansfield, Massachusetts, is the last place seventeen-year-old Edie Price wants to spend her final summer before college. It's the home of wealthy suburban mothers and prima donnas like Edie's cousins, who are determined to distract her from her mother's death...

A young girl growing up in modern-day Nigeria is forced into silence by the adults around her after her charming but troubled cousin forces her into a shameful and secretive situation.

After being acquitted of murder, seventeen-year-old David goes to stay with relatives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he finds himself forced to face his past as he learns more about his strange young cousin Lily.