Eighteen-year-old Bronwen feels so out of place in her family that she invents an alter ego, Phoebe Lilywhite, but she comes to understand the need to figure out who she really is when she falls in love with Jared Sondervan and he asks her to become his wife.
Luke, a seventeen-year-old from a small Michigan town, embarks on a personal struggle with spirituality, love, and responsibility after foretelling a friend's death.
In 1955, thirteen-year-old Lyric finds her whole life changing when her family moves from the hills of Virginia to a town in Michigan and her older sister Summer begins descending into mental illness.
Presents an alphabet book that teaches children about Michigan and provides information about the state's geography, history, events, people, and accomplishments through colorful illustrations and rhymes.
Seventeen-year-old Josephine Best, having been to college and opened her own hairdressing shop, is not looking for love, but her head is turned by the attentions of two soldiers who have returned home to Michigan from the Civil War.
Fifteen-year-old Mick recalls a series of betrayals and other life-changing events at home, school, and during the break-up with his girlfriend, and considers how those troubles led to his arrest for murder.