Tackling the challenges of college while her mother battles cancer, Ariel struggles with memories of her friend who disappeared years earlier and finds answers in relationships with three residents of an old house in Berkeley.
After a devastating earthquake destroys the West Coast, causing seventeen-year-old Penelope to lose her home, her parents, and her ten-year-old brother, she navigates a dark world, holding hope and love in her hands and refusing to be defeated.
Dirk MacDonald, a sixteen-year-old boy living in Los Angeles, comes to terms with being gay after he receives surreal storytelling visitations from his dead father and great-grandmother.
