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A honeymoon cruise goes horribly wrong when the captain insists that his 17-year-old son take over the helm, and the ship gets lost in the Bermuda Triangle. One lifeboat full of 12 people, including the captain and his son, washes up on an island. At first they think it is deserted, but they soon discover that a young woman named Aileen lives there. She claims to have arrived there when she was three years old, but her eloquent vocabulary makes them doubt her story.

Piper is just starting her freshman year of high school in West Virginia. She is neither pretty nor smart. She has never felt like she fit in anywhere. That changes when she begins to make friends with the kids at school who dress in all black. They help her discover herself—her politics, her religion, even her gender. But as she gets deeper and deeper into the clique, she feels like she is getting in over her head. Is Piper truly finding herself, or just the self they want her to find? She wants to keep her friends, but at what cost? And what does it truly mean to be transgender?

Kori hopes to start a new life—to be loved by friends, a cute boy named Robin, and a new family. However, her sister takes all that she wants. Because Kori stands up for her cousin against their racist peers, she again becomes an outcast. Then one day, Sera and Robin have a falling out, which gives Kori the opportunity to take back all that is rightfully hers. Can she do it? Or will she be held back by the popular girls and the voices in her head that want to destroy her?