Lurlene McDaniel

It is just two weeks before Christmas, and 16-year-old Leah Lewis-Hall is stuck in a hospital room. Leah is lonely and worried, but she doesn’t want to trouble her honeymooning mother....

Leah is not happy about being stuck in the hospital for the holidays while her mother is thousands of miles away on a honeymoon with husband number five....

Be sure to listen to this summer's highly anticipated companion to Angels Watching Over Me and Lifted Up by Angels: Until Angels Close My Eyes....

At 7:45 a.m. on the day before Thanksgiving break, a bomb goes off at Edison High. Nine people die instantly. Fifteen are critically injured....

As the lives of people who never wanted to hurt others intersect, harsh realities of choices that cannot be changed are explored....

The celebration isn't supposed to end in tragedy. The night of their high-school drama group's cast party starts out as fun for sisters Amy and Erin....

When the worlds of three girls and their families intersect, lives are changed in ways never imagined....

The doctors assure Erin Bennett and her parents that they can't find a physical cause for her headaches. But the throbbing, violent pain is so intense that Erin knows she needs help....

When a silly stunt dive goes wrong, Travis Morrison fears he has broken his leg. Instead, his trip to the hospital reveals he has a rare form of cancer, and to save him, the doctors tell his parents they must amputate....

Jessica McMillian and Jeremy Travino are a perfect couple. But now Jessica has been diagnosed as having kidney failure....

Nathan Malone has been homeschooled his whole life. He’s never spent much time with kids his own age and he’s never dated....

Told in letters, journal entries, e-mails, doctors’ reports, and instant messages, the heartbreaking story of an aspiring ballet dancer battling leukemia....

In first grade, twins Alexis and Adam wrote down what they wanted to be when they grew up and put it in their teacher’s time capsule....

A teacher is supposed to impart a love of learning and a thirst for knowledge....

Thirteen-year-old Casey's mother always said that Casey's sixteen-year-old sister marched to the beat of a different drummer....

It's the summer after sophomore year and Raina has convinced her best friends since the sixth grade, Kathleen and Holly, to spend their summer as "pink angels"....

Katie O'Roark is thrilled to learn that Jenny House is being rebuilt. Katie thought she could never return to the camp, where she spent the summers with teens like her who faced medical odds stacked against them....

Sarah finds herself in a strange place, and she can recall only one thing - her name. A young man, Heath de Charon, explains to Sarah that he found her unconscious on the grounds of his family's estate and has been caring for her....

Pink Angels and best friends Holly, Raina, and Kathleen have been through a lot over the past year....

Carley Mattea never expected to become friends with a boy as handsome as Kyle Westin - especially not in the hospital....