Raven, a teenage mother and high school dropout living in a housing project, decides, with the help and sometime interference of her best friend Aisha, to study for a spelling bee which could lead to a college preparatory program and four-year scholarship.

Told in two voices, Ally and Jake, back together and both "Cresties" again as senior year begins, are shocked when Chloe tells Jake he is the father of her child.

"When Foster teen Willa Elliot turns eighteen, she's pregnant and out of options. A DNA test gives her enough info to trace her biological family. But her dreams of a better life crash when her five-year-old stepsister drowns, and Willa is charged with manslaughter. Successful Savannah businesswoman Ivy Abernathy's capacity for love and forgiveness is put to the ultimate test when she's forced to set aside her grief for her younger daughter in order...