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Tim decides to spend a week with his grandparents in the inner city of Providence, Rhode Island. His friends suggest this might not be a good decision, but he goes anyway with the idea he can spend his time playing basketball at the court in the Cranston Street Projects. He is befriended by Marcus, the best basketball player in the projects. But Marcus and his sister are in danger from Pele, the drug dealer on Cranston Street.

Jeff is a boy with a broken heart, literally. He has lived past his expiration date. One more medical crisis...and that might be the end of him. Rheeta is the new girl in town. Her arrival is mysterious, so late in the school year, but when she and Jeff meet, sparks fly. They fall in love, but Jeff doesn’t have much time. He wants what his parents have, a chance to love, but he feels robbed because of his medical condition.

Chief Louise Consola, the chief of police for the idyllic town of Beaumont, Massachusetts, must unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of one of her best friends. As she unearths clues, it becomes clear that her friend’s death is part of a terrible secret that has been kept hidden for decades.

Tim and his best friend Andy Jones live in the town of Beaumont, Massachusetts, just north of Boston. They have been best friends ever since they played Pop Warner football when they were nine years old. Tim’s dad is Coach Joe of the Beaumont Warrior Varsity football team. Coach Joe and Tim have lived alone since Tim was three, when Tim’s mother left Coach Joe and Tim. Andy lost his father suddenly to a heart attack when he was 13 and just entering middle school.

Tommy Jack is a mute, homeless man living in a cave at the far end of Duncan’s Farm in Andover, Massachusetts. When he’s not roaming Andover, he tends Duncan’s honey bees in a meadow not far from Tommy’s camp. When the body of Ally Jones, the high school cheer captain missing for months turns up in a shallow grave on Duncan’s Farm, the town suspects that Tommy must have killed the girl.