A high school student staying true to herself. Four cousins hoping to find reconciliation. A couple seeking to rekindle their fire. A group searching for the truth. Effie helps them all when they converge upon the historic Skirvin Hotel one beautiful October weekend. In fact, Effie has always been in the business of helping people since she was hired as a housekeeper in the 1930s. And not even her tragic death has made her stop. From young adult, to new adult, to adult romance, with a touch of paranormal, Effie links four individual stories from four different authors. Effie and her...

Two worlds collide when E.C. Coleman, the star quarterback for Madison High's football team, shows up at the Samaritan Center, a place where Anna Holmes volunteers serving meals every week. He is everything she expects, arrogant, self-centered, and only there for a grade. Anna resents the distraction, wanting to stay focused on her dream of a violin scholarship to the university while helping her family with their cafe. But her younger brother, Aaron, loves football, and Anna would do almost anything to make him happy. Anna has had a difficult time trusting and believing in herself until,...

Jeannie Fedorchak, the best runner on Perry High School's cross-country team, is determined to make her senior year her fastest one yet. The school begins, and she immediately encounters a handsomely transformed Jason Butler, an increasingly loathsome Brent Phillips, and a curiously sophisticated new world history teacher, who also happens to be her team's new coach. None of the challenges Jeannie faces, however, compares to the world history project that forces her to confront her Aunt Maria, the woman she believes stole her Grandma Sophia away from her. With few memories of the father she...