Cigarettes, lilac skies and poetry at 3am: sixteen-year-old Pietro ''Pit'' Rossi knows the adrenaline of feeling empty and infinite at the same time. With the reputation of a goofy idiot who doesn't care about anything at all, getting held back at school doesn't seem like a problem. But it is. Because Pit cares about everything, and he always cares too much. [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]

Frank si prende cura di Mary, sua nipote, da sempre. Mary è una bambina sveglia, un vero e proprio genio e lui vuole soltanto che viva una vita normale, una vita da bambina. Occuparsi di Mary non è semplice, ma per fortuna può contare sull'aiuto di Roberta, la sua vicina di casa, e Marisol, la nipote di Roberta che sembra avere il dono di sapere sempre qual è la cosa giusta da fare. Frank non ammette distrazioni, vuole occuparsi di Mary e tutto il resto non conta. Ma se l'amore bussa alla porta, puoi davvero ignorarlo?

Hadley Jamison doesn't know what to think when she hears that her classmate, Archer Morales, committed suicide. She didn't exactly know him, but that doesn't stop her from feeling like there was something she could have done to help him. So to Hadley's surprise, on the very night of Archer's funeral, she has a run in with Death himself and is offered the chance to go back in time to stop Archer from ending his life. The catch? She only has twenty-seven days to do it. And if Hadley doesn't succeed? Well, she doesn't want to think about that.