High school football player JoeE lives a challenging life. He has a strict father, with extremely high expectations of him on the field and in the classroom, who does not permit childish emotions or other such behaviors. As for his mother, JoeE has grown up without her. She is missing, and it's presumed the worst has happened. But despite all that, what challenges JoeE the most is the veil of deceit that has been draped over his family for as long as he can remember. The secrets are stacked up and locked away, keeping him from knowing the truth about anything-including himself.

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MaryAna may be sixteen, but she still believes in magical romances. That belief is about to get her into a ton of trouble.

While on a trip from her home in Mississippi to Syracuse, New York, the bubbly cheerleader meets Tony, an ex-marine several years her senior. Believing the mature-looking MaryAna to be twenty, Tony asks her out. MaryAna is thrilled, inventing an older, fictional version of herself. She thinks she's found her prince charming, even if she suspects Tony deals drugs.

Casting herself as Cinderella in her own fairy tale, MaryAna continues to date Tony, even...

Outside, a deadly torrent of rain and wind threatens to tear her town to shreds. But for sixteen-year-old Coree Calhoun, the most devastating storm is the one brewing in her heart and mind. As she house-sits for her best friend's family, Coree is forced to come face-to-face with a flood of painful memories. And with electrical service, phone, and Internet ripped away by the inclement weather, there's no one to distract or help her through it besides herself.

Their small Mississippi city crippled by the growing storm, Coree's family and friends also find themselves powerless against...