It's been a year since Katie, Chelsea, and Lacey spent a special summer at Jenny House. This time as Big Sisters to a new group of girls who are also facing life-threatening illnesses. When tragedy strikes Jenny House, the three best friends know that things can never be the same again.

After sixteen-year-old Raina learns that she is a perfect match for donating bone marrow to a leukemia patient in Virginia, she discovers that the young woman is the sister she never knew she had.

With the support of her two best friends, sixteen-year-old Kathleen tries to balance her summer volunteer work at the hospital with her responsibilities caring for her mother, who has multiple sclerosis, and her attraction to a handsome boy.

After her freshman year at college, Katie decides to return to work at Jenny House, a camp for sick children, even though it means she may have to face her former boyfriend, Josh Martel, whose brother's heart had saved her life.

Eighteen-year-olds Ciana Beauchamp, Arie Winslow, and Eden McLauren of Tennessee rely on their close friendship as they face serious problems the summer before they start college, from parents' illnesses, to cancer, to two loving the same cowboy.

High school senior Trisha tries to cope with her shattered dreams after her friend Christina is killed in a car accident that leaves Trisha's boyfriend Cody in a coma and Christina's boyfriend Tucker, the driver, unharmed.

As Melissa dies of leukemia, her best friend, Jory Delany, draws closer to Melissa's family while they struggle to cope with her imminent death and to replace anger with hope and inspiration.

Collects three novels by the author, in which teenagers find compassion, strength, and love while recovering from tragic circumstances. In 'Saving Jessica,' helping her boyfriend, Jeremy, work through his grief over his brother's fatal accident, Jessica finds herself leaning on Jeremy for support when she is diagnosed with kidney failure. In 'Telling Christina goodbye,' a young woman must come to grips with the accident that left her boyfriend in...