Senior Katie Ellison has built her popularity on a base of lies that threatens to come tumbling down when Tommy Sullivan, her best friend in middle school, returns after a four-year absence and seems determined to strike up a relationship again in spite of Katie's past betrayal.
Sixteen-year-old Jean "Jinx" Honeychurch, the descendant of a witch, must leave Iowa to live with relatives in Manhattan after the first spell she casts goes awry, but she will have to improve her skills to stop her cousin from practicing black magic that endangers them and the boy they both like.
Princess Mia's friends and assistants examine the style, accomplishments, and other characteristics of real and fictional princesses, as Mia gleans from each a "random act of princess" for self-improvement.
High school junior and columnist for the school newspaper, Jenny Greenley is good at dispensing advice to others, but when nineteen-year-old film heartthrob Luke Striker pays a visit to research a role, he creates such havoc that not even Jenny is sure she can fix it.
Princess Mia's junior year in high school begins with a difficult course load, a crazy student council race, Grandmere's search for temporary lodging, and the news that her boyfriend is moving to Japan for a year.
John Hayden, a death deity, takes seventeen-year-old Pierce Oliviera back to the Underworld against her will to keep her safe from the Furies, but her family is still at risk and she, herself, may never escape his captivity.
Pierce, trying to unravel the mysterious death of someone close to her, finds herself drawn to a dark stranger, even though she believes he may be a killer.