"In 1948, Nikko Spirakis, twelve, loves baseball but must get past his hard-working immigrant parents--and the rhino in the outfield--to become a batboy for the local minor league team." --

"High school junior Bettina Vasilisis is trapped in a relationship with her basketball star boyfriend when she meets Cowboy, a car mechanic whom her traditional father would not approve of"--

When Leo's anxiety caused a fight at school he didn't lie, but he wasn't exactly honest about how it all went down-- how he went down. Now Leo's father thinks a self-defense class is exactly what his son needs to "man up." Sitting at the front desk of the local gym? Evey Paros, whose family supposedly cursed Leo's with bad luck. Evey cuts him a deal: she'll enroll him in hot yoga instead-- for a price. But what could the brilliant, ruthless, forbidden...

"Sixteen-year-old Elektra Kamenides is well on her way to becoming a proper southern belle in the small Mississippi college town she calls home. That is, until her mother decides to uproot her and her kid sister Thalia and start over in California. They leave behind Elektra's father--a professor and leading expert on Greek mythology, and Elektra can't understand why. For her, life is tragedy, and all signs point to her family being cursed." --