"Beloved New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs returns with a compulsively readable tale of an idyllic California beach town forced to reckon with scandal when a high school valedictorian's speech reveals secrets that shake the town to its core"-- "Every town has its secrets... In idyllic Alara Cove, a California beach town known for its sunny charm and chill surfer vibe, it's graduation day. The students at the elite Thornton Academy are...

Heather never thought she would compete in Panic, a legendary game played by graduating seniors, where the stakes are high and the payoff is even higher. She'd never thought of herself as fearless, the kind of person who would fight to stand out. But when she finds something, and someone, to fight for, she will discover that she is braver than she ever thought. Dodge has never been afraid of Panic. His secret will fuel him and get him all the way...

Ah, "beach week": a time-honored tradition in which the D.C. suburbs' latest herd of high school grads flocks to Chelsea Beach for seven whole days of debauched celebration. In this dark comedy, ten teenage girls plan an unhinged blowout the likes of which their young lives have never seen. They smuggle vodka in water bottles and horde prescription drugs by the dozen. Meanwhile, their misguided, affluent parents are too busy worrying about legal liabilities...

"Middie Daniels is torn between the memory of her missing boyfriend, Nate, and Nate's brooding best friend Lee"-- After graduating high school Middie Daniel's boyfriend, Nate, heads to Central America for a year of volunteering. When he returns, he'll come back to Roseburg, Oregon, so that he and Middie can leave-- together. But tragedy strikes and Nate disappears, and no one seems to understand just how lost Maddie is-- except for Nate's slacker...

Willa and Taylor fulfill the dying wish of Finley, who had held their friendship together, by sailing from Ohio to Key West after high school graduation.

After high school graduation, best friends Matt and Cole strive to put behind them the school shooting they survived in first grade and really begin to live. Told in two voices.

The reader makes choices for four college-bound best friends who take an occult-centered road trip and embark on a mystical scavenger hunt across the West Coast, uncovering the mysteries of their tarot deck. The summer before college, Amelia, Chase, Cleo, and Logan are on the first leg of their road trip inspired by the unique tarot deck that Amelia inherited from her grandmother. Their trip-- full of visiting occult shops, bonding and sightseeing--...

With her plans for the future crushed at the start of the summer of 1991, seventeen-year-old Cassie Worthy finds friendship, love, and ultimately herself while working at the Parkway Center Mall. New Jersey, 1991. Cassie Worthy is psyched to spend the summer after graduation working at the Parkway Center Mall. In six weeks, she and her boyfriend head off to college in NYC to fulfill The Plan: higher education and happily ever after. But you know...

"The story of two supremely ironic, above-it-all teenagers facing the thrilling uncertainty of life after high school. As they attempt to carry their life-long friendship into a new era, the careful dynamics of their inseparable bond are jolted, and what seemed like a future of endless possibilities looks more like an encroaching reality of strip malls, low-paying service jobs and fading memories."--Brodart.