Will has a choice to make. Or maybe he doesn’t. With a gun shoved into the back of his waistband, he heads out to avenge his brother Shawn’s death. But as the elevator stops at the next floor, Buck steps on. Buck is dead, and he wants to know what Will is going to do with that gun. The gun that used to be Shawn’s.

As a young woman, coming-of-age in the early 1800s, Constance’s future appears to be headed towards marriage and raising a family. In fact, her parents arrange this future for her as part of a business negotiation. Yet, Stance refuses to fit the prescriptive and restrictive labels and roles assigned to her.

After a solar flare changes the trajectory of Halley’s Comet to collide with Earth, the planet’s inhabitants are all but doomed. Only a handful of people are chosen to keep the human race alive on another planet, including twelve-year old Petra Peña and her Latinx family. Although Petra longs to stay with her storytelling grandmother, she at least hopes to become a cuentista in this new world.

Alex Rufus has a superpower. He can see into the future. Every time he touches something with his hand, he can see a snapshot of what will happen seconds, minutes, hours, or even years from that moment. Yet, as incredible as a superpower may seem, it’s exhausting and anxiety-inducing for Alex.

Isaiah Wilson struggles to step out of the shadows of those he has followed his whole life, especially Muggy Little Jr. Branded a troublemaker, Isaiah knows deep down that he is much more.

Charlese Jones is the ultimate antagonist in author Sharon Flake’s The Skin I’m In. She elicits little empathy from readers as she bullies and belittles everyone around her. Yet, decades later, fans of The Skin I’m In still wonder whatever happened to Char.