Jake Conway has fought his way through school and at eighteen the end is in sight. At the bottom of the popularity heap, he can't wait to leave school and start a new life. But then The Pulse happens and his life is changed for ever.
The story is that of a 30 year old man who is taken back 60 years to wartime Britain,through some fluke and finds himself in the body of an eighteen year old boy, with a glamorous mother and girlfriend In his own way he made a significant contribution to winning the war. He had many affairs and many adventures in war time Britain.
Amanda is picking up the pieces of her life after an ill-considered marriage, moving across two states back to her girlhood home. Her brother Nick is trying to put his life back together as well, having put everything on hold to care for his dying mother for the last year. Together, they try to find the strength to continue on - and perhaps more.
Melinda's father acts strange, so she follows him to a secret event, but she is discovered. She soon learns that things are even darker than she thought, and he has to sacrifice her innocence to save them both from the monsters he is forced to work for. But they are still in danger, so our teenage heroine takes things into her own hand while their situation becomes more and more precarious. A debauched and thrilling tale.
Sixteen-year-olds Layla and Sophie had been best friends for years and years. As they got older, each had come to have feelings for the other, but neither had dared to express them. Then Sophie went on a trip to Europe with her parents, and what she learned there would change everything.