Nineteen-year-old Avery Delacorte loves the water. Growing up in Brookline, Massachusetts, she took swim lessons at her community pool and captained the local team; in high school, she raced across bays and sprawling North American lakes. Now a sophomore on her university's nationally ranked team, she struggles under the weight of new expectations but life is otherwise pretty good. Perfect, really.That all changes when Avery's red-eye home for Thanksgiving...

Separated from his best friend in the aftermath of a terrible accident that ended his little brother's life, Otis becomes the unlikely protégé of a former champion swimmer before he is forced to confront painful memories when his best friend returns.

"Meet Pepper, swim team captain, chronic overachiever, and all-around perfectionist. Her family may be falling apart, but their massive fast-food chain is booming - mainly thanks to Pepper, who is barely managing to juggle real life while secretly running Big League Burger's massive Twitter account. Enter Jack, class clown and constant thorn in Pepper's side. When he isn't trying to duck out of his obscenely popular twin's shadow, he's busy working...

Learning that she has only one year left to live, Charlotte Clap steals two million dollars from the bank where she used to work, changes her name, and moves into an expensive Hollywood condo, all the while eluding the police.

Audrey Hastings, who swims sixty-six daily laps in her pool, soothes the frustrations of motherhood, the pain of her husband's infidelity, and the guilt of her own infidelity, while she learns the consequences of jealousy, suspicion, and adultery.

"It's 1992, and the world is caught up in the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the Balkan Wars, but for fifteen-year-old Julie Winter, the news is noise. In Portland, Oregon, Julie moves through her days in a series of negatives: the skaters she doesn't think are cute, the trinkets she doesn't buy at the craft fair, the umbrella she refuses to carry despite the incessant rain. Her family life is routine and restrained, and no one talks about Julie's older brother,...