Braffet, Kelly

Patrick Cusimano and his brother, Mike, become the pariahs of their town after their father kills a boy while driving drunk, seemingly attracting people with troubled pasts to themselves--like Caro, Mike's girlfriend, and Layla Elshere, a goth teenager whose friendship Patrick distrusts, as well as Layla's sister Verna. Toxic relationships lead them all to a crisis of friendship and trust.

Brother and sister Josie and Jack struggle to survive their father's erratic behavior, life on the streets, and their own inner demons.

The relationship between Anne Cassidy and her daughter Miranda, strained ever since Anne chose to move to Arizona in the wake of her pilot husband's mysterious death, is completely severed when Miranda, now an aimless college dropout in Pittsburg, completely disappears, leaving Anne to follow a path of clues that is also being traced by a possible serial killer.