Eleven-year-old Dougie, living in California's Calaveras County, teams up with twelve-year-old Varloo, an emissary from a culture living in underground caves, and tries to help her people.

In 1932, while exploring the California desert, Colly finds a Cahuilla Indian boy and his grandmother, who are trapped in a Forever Day that they are constantly repeating from their lives in 1774.

In 1941, Los Angels police detective Zeke Bannon investigates the suspicious electrocution of Verna Wilensky. He followsa trail of checks stretching back twenty years that leads him to Thomas Culhane of San Peitro, a man who may well be the next governor.

The insensitivity between neighbors leads to the gradual disintegration of a small California farm community.

When sixteen-year-old Mina is forced to take a class to help her decide whether or not to become a vampire like her parents, she also faces a choice between her life-long best friend and the boy she has a crush on versus new friends and possible boyfriends in her mandatory "vampire lessons."

Since former Marine helicopter pilot Jack Morgan started Private, it has become one of the world's most powerful investigation firms, sought out by the rich and famous to discretely handle their most sensitive problems. Private's investigators are the smartest, the fastest, and the most technologically advanced in the world, and they always uncover the truth. When a former lover is found murdered in Jack's bed, he is instantly the number one suspect....