Colby's post-high school plans to spend a year touring Europe with his best friend, Beth, are suddenly changed when she announces she will start college in the fall, and he struggles to understand why she changed her mind.
Jessica is a high school freshman and a virago, a warrior who protects her town from danger, and when a local battle of the bands results in musicians dying, she and her friends must track down the one behind this evil.
Fifteen-year-old Dylan's friend Angie is making a film about him while he is busy trying to keep his older brother from getting caught with drugs; deal with his mother having left the family; and figure out how to get Angie to think of him as more than just a friend.
Twelve-year-old Kacey Simon's jealousy threatens her popularity when her new crush Zander's ex-girlfriend and former lead singer, Stevie, arrives in town.
When fourteen-year-old Callie McCallan interviews the band Brass Rat for her school newspaper, her feelings are ambivalent, but when all the children of Northampton begin to disappear on Halloween, she knows where the dangerous search must begin.
Seventeen-year-old Molly Montgomery learns the cost of fame when her band, The Hormones, a group started with her friends just for fun, suddenly becomes all the rage.
Through her love of music and membership in her brother's band, sixteen-year-old Lisa learns to deal with her feelings of abandonment following her mother's death.
