Fear and terror grip Wrightsburg, Georgia, when Beth Campbell, head cheerleader at Chandler High School, goes missing and is later found murdered. Ginny Westbrook, a budding journalist, seeks out Beth's killer even as she searches for her own identity. Ginny, born too white for black and too black for white, is despised by the black community because she is different, and hated by whites for an interracial kiss shared with Dewey Colton, a fellow student, in a school play. While researching an article for the school newspaper, Ginny stumbles upon a string of missing girls. Digging too deeply,...

After moving to America, Nick Wideman - son of a Greek sprinter and an American pole vaulter - is dumbfounded when he is criticized by the black community and ostracized by whites for transferring to all-black Central High School in an attempt to join a nationally acclaimed 400-meter relay team, whose runners are so fast they are called Rocket Men. A school-boy's crush on pretty brown Mia Hunter only adds fuel to the fire as Nick battles reverse discrimination and stiff competition to make the team.

During his tour of duty in Vietnam, Billy (Georgia Boy) Ricks becomes an American hero. Not only does he save his Recon Marine squad from annihilation, but later Billy saves his Lieutenant from an attack by a disgruntled Black soldier in the aftermath of the Martin Luther King murder. When he returns to his family, however, Billy is not met with yellow ribbons tied around oak trees, but the harsh reality of unemployment.

In 1977, an Atlanta community is disrupted by tragic lovers' lane killings; Computer Science Professor Phil Gregory's daughter was one of the victims. More than twenty years later, the killer is back. Phil abruptly retires to catch his daughter's killer. Using the Internet, he tracks the killer through the underground world of sadomasochism and bondage. After baiting the killer into a showdown, which is inadvertently broadcast via the Internet.