Seventeen-year-old Gavin Hillstone is resigned to being miserable for the rest of his life. Left alone in the world after his parents died in a fire when he was four, he was placed in foster care, which for him meant ending up in an abusive home with an alcoholic adoptive father. Gavin’s only escape is in taking and creating images. His camera is his refuge from the unending torture and isolation of daily life in his “family.” Until he learns by accident that he isn’t alone in the world after all. His father’s parents are still alive and living in Washington DC. When he takes the plunge and travels 3,000 miles to find his grandparents, he learns that they—and he—are part of something much bigger, and more dangerous, than he could ever have imagined. Something that has always put his family at risk and that will now threaten his own life, while forever changing it. He learns that he is one of the last descendants of a small group of Photo Travelers—people who can travel through time and space through images. But his initial excitement turns to fear, when he soon discovers that he and his grandparents are being pursued by the fierce remnants of a radical European Photo Traveler cult, the Peace Hunters. What Gavin has, they want! His adventure will take him to past eras, like The Great Depression and the Salem Witch Trials. Gavin will have to discover who he really is and must make choices that spell the difference between life and death for himself, for the relatives he now knows and loves, and for the girl he will come to love. For Gavin, life will never be the same.

Meet Matt Klarner, your average jock who didn't have a care in the world except that he's the heir to Klarner Industries and is worth billions. That's how people saw him and how he thought he felt until he was forced to work with Emily Brown for a history project. Through struggles and deaths, Emily seemed to be able to pull herself together and thinks she knows exactly what she wants- to attend Stanford. Matt and Emily soon learn that to work together, they have to remove whatever they're hiding behind and look beyond each other's differences. "Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all."

"That’s the way things work in my family. My parents are separatists, my brother is a pot-head and my younger sister is a Human-Sized-Bratz. But I wouldn’t trade them for the world. Well I would trade my brother when he triggers the smoke alarm at two in the morning when he opens the door of his room to go bake brownies. But then again, his brownies are pretty damn good." This is the story of Azélie Tremblay. A happy girl with a happy life. But when is anything ever not complicated?