In the early nineteen-hundreds, sixteen-year-old Prudence Galewski leaves school to take a job assisting the head epidemiologist at New York's Department of Health and Sanitation, investigating the intriguing case of "Typhoid Mary," a seemingly healthy woman who is infecting others with typhoid fever. Includes a historical note by the author.

Rebelling against the role others believe she should conform to, Billie McCaffrey struggles with her feelings for two of her friends. As the tomboy daughter of the town's preacher, Billie McCaffrey would rather wear sweats, build furniture, and get into trouble with her solid group of friends: Woods, Mash, Davey, Fifty, and Janie Lee. When Janie Lee confesses to Billie that she's in love with Woods, Billie realizes that she is also in love with Woods...

Raised as a boy before becoming the only survivor of a village that was destroyed by fire, 17-year-old Janneke is sent to work in the court of merciless monsters for her captor's alluring nephew, Soren, who compels her to sever her ties to the human world. Youngest in a family of daughters, Janneke was taught to hunt, track, and fight. Then her village was burned to the ground, and Janneke-- the only survivor-- was taken captive by the malicious...