'"'All for one and one for all' was the girls' motto. In the grim foster home for orphans run by Louise and Gordon Tooey, at least Brooke, Crystal, Raven, and Butterfly had each other. Calling themselves 'sisters,' together they could forget the past and dream of a new chance...a real home. Then they discovered a secret even more haunting than Gordon's heavy boots pounding on the wooden floors. Their fragile hopes of a better life shattered, they...

April Taylor, her parents dead, estranged from her older sister, and alone after the death of the uncle with whom she had been living, is taken in by a kind elderly woman and her deaf granddaughter, and through their friendship and love learns to trust herself--a quality that comes in handy when danger appears on the doorstep.

She grew up in the shadows of lies. Now the past will come to light. As a child, she was Baby Celeste, the one thing that kept her mother in touch with reality. But now her mother is in an institution, and sixteen-year-old Celeste Atwell is alone in the world. Adopted by a wealthy couple, Celeste has everything a girl could desire: designer clothes, luxury cars, even a handsome boyfriend. But her indulgence may come at a steep price--because the secrets...

Now that Cat must tell the details of her problems to the other girls in her counseling group, she is too ashamed to reveal the truth and considers lying to the other girls.