Picoult, Jodi

Oliver is a prince ripped, literally, from the pages of a fairy tale by the wish of Delilah, a girl in the real world. Oliver and Delilah, like any good fairy tale, fall in love--but at a cost. For Oliver to be in Delilah's world, a boy from her world has to take Oliver's place. That boy is Edgar, who at first agrees and enjoys living in a fairy tale, but soon complications arise and everyone's future hangs in the balance.

When her reluctance to treat the newborn of a white supremacist couple results in the child's death, a black nurse is placed on trial and is aided by a white public defender who urges her not to bring up race in the courtroom.

The Hartes and the Golds, longtime neighbors and friends, are not surprised when their children Chris and Emily fall in love, but the bond between the families is placed under an enormous strain when Emily is killed, leaving behind the question of whether her death was a suicide, or murder.

Assistant district attorney Nina Frost has always prided herself on the fact that she protects the city's children from abuse and crime, but when her own son is sexually abused, she finds herself overcome with rage and sets out to find his attacker and exact justice for her son.

Told in their separate voices, sixteen-year-old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy tale existence, and fifteen-year-old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom.

Jenna Metcalf, with the help of psychic Serenity Jones and private detective Virgil Stanhope, seeks to uncover the mystery surrounding the disappearance of her mother Alice, a scientist who studied grief among elephants.

Philadelphia defense attorney Ellie Hathaway, unsatisfied with the course of her career and personal life, leaves her job for an open-ended stay at her great-aunt's home in Paradise, Pennsylvania, arriving just in time to become embroiled in the case of a young, unmarried Amish woman accused of killing her newborn baby.