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Bubbly, brilliant college freshman Cricket Hughes just wants to spend winter break with her high school friends and boyfriend from Seattle. Even though she's doing amazing at university in Portland, Cricket's miserable there and unsure about her entire future. But when she's with her peeps, all that gloominess disappears. She feels alive again.

Shy, creative high school junior Quinn Hughes has always been happy following in her bubbly, brilliant older sister Cricket’s footsteps in everything from speech and track to AP classes, dance committees and carpool. But this year, Cricket's at college and Quinn’s joyful life is falling apart. She can’t seem to shine without her helicopter sister leading the way. By Thanksgiving, Quinn is friendless, has an F in history, tanked the Varsity speech tournament and fell asleep at a stoplight after an all-night study session, putting her driving privileges on probation.

Meet Saoirse Berger, a newly 18, hopeful-romantic overachiever, waiting impatiently for life to begin. She has an internship with her famous film director uncle, a hit BookTube channel with her actress cousin Sadie, and is fully determined to get her world on track as a true adult person, complete with happiness and sparkly love in spades. But nothing is going to plan.

Meet Beatrix Plumb. Sixteen. Smart. Budding idealist, full-fledged romantic, chronic self-doubter and divinely equipped to have a regular junior year. But Bee’s on the outs, wavering between invisible and miserable because her best friend Kate (sixteen, budding Jungian analyst) now has a serious boyfriend and Bee realizes she has nothing. Hopeful dreamer that she is, Bee takes control of her life with a personal Junior Year Manifesto: 1) Be awesome enough to like herself and her life; and 2) Get Owen to notice her. Owen's the high school quarterback she's been in love with since kindergarten.

Emmeline McGuire vanished 30 years ago in a small upstate New York lake town, just as Clara Aiello was born in Paris. Now, Clara's a 30-year-old designer in NYC, married to gaming entrepreneur Seamus Dunne, age 45. Yes, he's older, but it's never mattered. The spark when they first met touched her to the core -- comfortable, easy, sexy. It's as if Clara has known Seamus forever. He is without a doubt her soul mate. Now, all Clara wants is to start a family. But they have not been lucky.