One Perfect Lie is an emotional thriller and a suburban crime story that will keep you guessing until you turn the very last page. On the surface, it tells the tale of the struggling single mother of a high-school pitcher, a shy kid so athletically talented that he's being recruited for a full-ride scholarship to a Division I college, with a future in major-league baseball. But the mother fears that she's losing her grip on her son because he's being...

On the last day of high school, mild-mannered English teacher Andy Campbell tries to keep it together amidst senior pranks, a dysfunctional administration, and budget cuts that put jobs on the line. Then he accidentally crosses his much tougher and deeply feared colleague, Ron Strickland, who challenges Campbell to an old-fashioned throw down. News of the fight spreads like wildfire and it ends up becoming the very thing the school, and Campbell,...

Thanks to a bully in gym class, unpopular Nate suffers a broken finger--the middle one, splinted to flip off the world. It won't be the last time a middle finger is raised on this day. Dreamer Claire envisions herself sitting in an artsy café, filling a journal, but fate has other plans. One cheerleader dates a closeted basketball star; another questions just how, as a "big girl," she fits in. A group of boys scam drivers for beer money without remorse--or...

He is rich and famous, and dark in ways Rebecca shouldn't find intriguing. The attraction between them is rich with velvety promises of satisfaction and heart-pounding sensuality... When high school English teacher Sara finds Rebecca's journal, the doors are opened to a passionate craving within that she never knew she possessed, a relationship drenched in ecstasy and wrapped in dark secrets. She assumes Rebecca's life, and is drawn to two men. Which...

Stressed-out high school teacher Trish Fahey can't understand her students' lack of effort and why their parents don't seem to care. This is especially true of Justin Kremer, a popular, skateboard-loving basketball star who is underperforming in her class. Trish has him suspended from the team and quickly chalks up the situation as a case of bad parenting. When Trish wrecks her car, she wakes to find herself living the life of Cindy Kremer, the woman...

When Serena is saved from a killer in the forest, she learns more about Christopher, the man who sacrificed his life to save hers, and must clear her name when she is suspected of working with the killer. A troubled student has accused biology teacher Serena Diaz of sexual misconduct, cutting off her promising career just as it was starting to blossom. When a therapeutic walk in the woods leads her to a ruined house overtaken by criminals, Serena...

"Perhaps no profession is so constantly discussed, regulated, and maligned by non-practitioners as teaching. The voices of the teachers themselves are conspicuously missing. Defying this trend, teacher and writer Garret Keizer takes us to school-- literally-- in this account of his return to the same rural Vermont high school where he taught fourteen years ago. Much has changed since then-- a former student is his principal, standardized testing is...

"Charles Marlow teaches his high school English students that language will expand their worlds. But linguistic precision cannot help him connect with his autistic son, or with his ex-wife, who abandoned their shared life years before, or even with his college-bound daughter, who has just flown the nest. He's at the end of a road he's traveled on autopilot for years when a series of events forces him to think back on the lifetime of decisions and...

Shannon Parker is settled into her new life in Patholon and happily pregnant with the child of Centaur High Shaman ClanFintan. Haunted by disturbing visions, Shannon is suddenly thrust back to Oklahoma and is shocked to discover that Clint Freeman (her mate's earthly double) is responsible.