Brutally ditched by her best friend, Kara feels totally abandoned until she makes a life-changing discovery about herself—something she never even knew was there.

Best friends forever? Yeah, right.

Kara Hendricks and Jordan Ferguson have been best friends since kindergarten. By now—sophomore year—they’re more like sisters, really. Jordan has always been the leader in the friendship, but still she’s the perfect friend. That is, until she starts to hang with a new, “cool” crowd and decides Kara is a popularity liability.

Devastated, Kara feels betrayed and abandoned by everyone-even God. How could Jordan do this? Why did God let this happen? Yet for all the hurt and insecurity, these dark blue days contain a life-changing secret. Now that Jordan is gone, Kara has the chance to discover something about herself that she never knew before. But first she must learn to trust again. It won’t be easy.

Stuck in a twisted love triangle, Jordan feels absolutely green with envy until her former best friend Kara introduces her to someone even more important than Timothy.

A sick, twisted love triangle.

Jordan Ferguson and Shawna Frye became good friends a few months back—when Jordan made cheerleader and started hanging with a new group of friends. That’s how the Timothy Lawrence incident happened.

When Timothy suddenly dumps Shawna—to start seeing Jordan—rumors start flying. Shawna gets her revenge, first by smearing her former friend’s reputation. Then she steals back Timothy by tempting him with an offer he can’t refuse. Jordan feels absolutely green with envy—so much so that she considers doing everything in her power to get him back. Everything. Luckily, her old friend Kara Hendricks has been down that road too and knows Someone who just might be able to help Jordan as well.

Feeling pressured and confused, Zoe must make a life-defining decision about sex.

“Maybe I should just do it and get it over with.”Zoe is certain she’s the only teenager on the planet who’s still a virgin—okay, except for maybe abstinence princess, Callie Price. The new girl in school, Shawna Frye, has done it and talks about it all the time. She tries to make it sound so great—and maybe it is—but sometimes it sounds sort of degrading as well.

When jock-boy Jamie Allen asks Zoe out, she wonders if he could finally be the one. Nate, a die-hard Christian and real friend, encourages Zoe to consider exactly what it all means before she makes a life-defining decision. Behind the scenes, Shawna’s dark secret threatens to change everyone’s perspective on sex. But will Zoe find out before it’s too late?

Following her friend’s suicide, Morgan questions the meaning of life and death to come to her life’s ultimate decision.

If Morgan thought her life was tough before—what with a drug-addicted, klepto brother and a cradle-robbing mother—it just got worse. Last night, her close friend Jason took his own life. Smart-funny-good listener-and perfect in just about every way-Jason Harding is gone forever.

Someone please wake me from this nightmare.

Jason’s death sends Morgan reeling. She copes—or tries to—by attempting to piece together vague clues that might explain her friend’s suicide. Making matters worse, Morgan can’t help but feel responsible because she wasn’t there for her friend when he needed her most. Sometimes she thinks maybe Jason had the right idea all along. Morgan feels lost in a pitch-black abyss. Her only way out is to put the final clues together—to uncover an answer to her most haunting question.

Before she knows it, Amber Conrads little white lies about her drinking habits add up to major self-deception, and she finds herself in a heap of trouble.

Amber Conrad has a problem. Her youth group friends Simi and Lisa won’t get off her case about the drinking parties she’s been going to. Amber chalks it up to jealousy and just pokes fun at their concern—even though she secretly wonders if they might be right.

Everyone does it. What’s the big deal?

Up until her senior year, Amber has been the model of perfection—just like her dad, Pastor Conrad, taught her to be. But when Claire Phillips invites her to more and more parties, Amber’s little white lies spark raging wildfire that threatens to overtake her life. Will she be honest with herself and her friends before things really get out of control?

Book six in the acclaimed TrueColors series tackles an issue most highschoolers encounter: materialism.

All in all, Hannah Johnson is pretty happy as a missionary kid. In Papua New Guinea, no one worries about fancy clothes or credit card limits-everyone has other things to think about. But when Hannah visits her cousin Vanessa for a summer in America, everything changes.

All that glitters isn’t gold.

Vanessa and her friends try to catch Hannah up on all the latest fashion trends, but in the end, Hannah feels hopeless. She doesn’t think she’ll ever be able to keep up with the rich girls-but that doesn’t stop her from trying. In the process, Hannah is forced to come to grips with what she values most: beauty on the inside, or beauty on the outside.

A fictional story of a girl who struggles to get over her cutting addiction.

This is just my way of dealing with the pain. Ruth Wallace knows she can only hide the scars on her arms for so long. Who wears long sleeves all summer long? Cutting herself doesn’t make Ruth’s problems disappear, but at least it helps her cope. Her dad is a nightmare, her mother seems lost in a medicated dreamland, and her brother Caleb can’t handle their family life any more than she can. Abby, one of Ruth’s good friends, is getting suspicious. Fortunately, Glen Collins hasn’t noticed yet. But then again, he’s a new student and probably doesn’t want to sound mean. Ruth needs to find someway, any way, to heal her scars-the ones she hides and the ones she can’t-before something terrible happens.

After moving from Boston with her mom, Reagan Mercer is just trying to fit in at her new high school. After winning a coveted spot on the cheerleading squad, she accidentally bumps popularity poster child Kendra Farnsworth from the lineup and makes a new A-list enemy. So much for blending in. Things begin to look up after Kendra decides to play nice and make Reagan a part of her elite crew. But Reagan finds that acceptance has a steep price, as her new friends make life miserable for anyone who gets in their way. And after a tragic accident and party gone too far, can Reagan still make the right choice?

Maggie struggles to stay strong as her home life suddenly starts to disintegrate, when her parents split up.
Maggie blames her mom for the family’s disintegration. “She’s driven him away with her constant nagging and complaining and arguing. Honestly, who could stand to live with that woman?” she vents to her friend Claire. However, there’s more to the story, and Maggie desperately wants to know the truth—something nobody seems willing to tell her.

Book 10 in the TrueColors series addresses the sensitive issue of homosexuality.

In the food court at the Greenville Mall, Samantha LeCroix drops a bombshell:

“I’m a lesbian.” Ramie Grant cannot believe her ears. Sam!? Her best friend, her teammate…a homosexual? It’s all way too much for Ramie to handle. I can’t deal with this right now. It’s just a matter of time before others on the basketball team find out. Quickly, little jokes become vicious attacks, making Samantha even more reluctant to share an even bigger secret. Ramie and fellow teammate BJ want to do the right thing, except so far, everything they do has backfired. In the end, Ramie must decide if she will stand by Samantha’s side or turn her back on a friend in need.