As Jamie fights to earn her NASCAR license, her foster brother, Tim, takes a job in the Maxwell garage and finds out more about his father's death.

"Two very different girls navigate the bumpy road to love"-- While visiting her grandmother in small-town North Carolina to get over a break-up and improve her riding skills, seventeen-year-old Piper and local eighteen-year-old Kat, who is unsure of her sexual preference, help each other face their insecurities. Seventeen-year-old Piper, visiting her grandmother in small-town North Carolina after her girlfriend broke up with her, and local eighteen-year-old...

The Appalachian families of the Wakefields and MacBrides have an ongoing feud that had Jay Wakefield, a lonely rich boy, betray Gabby McBride. Now that Gabby must deal with a family legacy, she must come to terms with her bittersweet love for Jay.

When his father rejoins the Navy and moves the family to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, ten-year-old Jack becomes confused by a crush on his teacher, contradictory advice from his parents, and a very strange neighbor.

Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, is sent for home schooling to the arty and eccentric Applewhite family's Creative Academy, where he discovers talents and interests he never knew he had.

The lush, secluded mountains of North Carolina's Lake Lure had drawn Lauren Castle into their spell. It was here, in 1938, that Hollywood's glamour girl, Victoria Frazer, drowned during a scandalous affair with actor Roger Brandt. Few knew about the baby spirited into the night. That baby was Lauren's mother. Just two years ago, Lauren's husband, returned to Lake Lure to film a documentary on Brandt, had himself died. Now Lauren has received a warning...

The book chronicles the maturing of Wolfe's autobiographical character, Eugene Gant, in his desperate search for fulfillment, making his way from small-town North Carolina to the wider world of Harvard University, New York City, and Europe.