After her husband leaves her and she is involved in a tragic accident, Pilgrim Jones moves to Africa and befriends a series of locals, but when a witch doctor carries a curse into town, Pilgrim cannot shake the feeling she is being watched.

"Frank Ryder is unstoppable on the baseball field?his pitches arrive faster than a batter can swing, giving his opponents no chance. He?s being heralded as a game-changing pitcher. But within the maelstrom of press, adulation, and wild speculation, Frank is a man alone. Haunted by a tragic incident from years past, he yearns to be the best but cannot reconcile the guilt he carries with the man everyone believes him to be. Frank?s path to redemption...

"As Trent Zimmerman struggles to move past a traumatic event that took place several months earlier, he befriends class outcast Fallon Little, who helps him understand that he can move on"-- Provided by publisher.

After the death of her father, Amy, a high school student, and Roger, a college freshman, set out on a carefully planned road trip from California to Connecticut, but wind up taking many detours, forcing Amy to face her worst fears and come to terms withher grief and guilt.

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, thirteen-year-old Tetsu and his family are sent to the Gila River Relocation Center in Arizona where a fellow prisoner starts a baseball team, but when Tetsu's sister becomes ill and he feels responsible, he stops playing.

Park So-nyo goes missing in a Seoul train station on the way to visit her four adult children, and So-nyo's children and husband express guilt over the things they could have done to take better care of her.