Sienna Murray by Sarah Fox

My name is Sienna Murray. I’m a high school senior and I live in Wildwood Cove on the Olympic Peninsula. It’s a cute town about half an hour from Port Angeles, and my favorite thing about it is the beach. I love living by the ocean! Next year I’ll be off to college,...

Megan Stanford by Linda Rawlins

Hurricane Sandy hit the United States, first landing in New Jersey on October 29, 2012. It was the deadliest hurricane that year from the Caribbean up through Canada. My grandmother, Rose Stanford, practically had to be dragged from her hundred-year-old Victorian...

Gemma Doyle by Vicki Delany

“I am not a consulting detective.” I don’t want to be a consulting detective. All I want is to be a bookstore owner, and to sell books and other merchandise at the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium in West London, Massachusetts. But somehow word has spread and I...

Hope Taylor by Laura Jensen Walker

I’m so excited! (Honestly? A little bit nervous too.) Today I start my new job. And not just a new job; also a new town. New church. New home. Lots of changes. A fresh start. One that will be good for me after the pain and heartbreak of the past couple years. I...

Angie by E.J. Copperman

My name’s Angie and frankly, that’s all you need to know. I’m a Jersey girl and if you have a problem with that I have a solution, but we’d have to step outside. I was born and raised in the Garden State, but lately I’ve been visiting Los Angeles because of my friend...

Hank Worth by Claire Booth

He still had to go to work. It was an unfortunate consequence of being the sheriff of Branson County, Missouri. People expected you to do some sheriffing. Hank rolled out of bed and took a shower. By then, the kids were awake and asking for breakfast. They ate...