Books in Avon Flare Book series

Beyond YesterdayEvery story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. That's the way it is at grandmother's house where tea is served each day at four and tales of death and divorce, illness and abandonment are shared by grandmother's circle of friends. The women watch over one another and eveyone watches over Grayling -- whose own story has never been told her to hear.But in a summer of many changes, fourteen-year-old Grayling encounters love and romance, joy and saddness...and the need to know her own story -- from the very beginning.

ROGUE WAVE AND OTHER RED-BLOODED SEA STORIESTossed in the thundering waters of a killer wave, Melissa fights for her life, trapped in the hull of an upside-down boat. . .Michael seeks revenge after his father's brutal death in the jaws of a great white shark. . .Blinded by his own blood, navy pilot Jack Grimes attempts to defy death by landing on an aircraft carrier. . .An apprentice seaman aboard an American freighter is plunged into the cold sea. The suck of the hull draws him cruelly along below the waterline, knifing him on barnacles, finally releasing him into the white water wake, as his ship disappears on the horizon. . .THE SEA HAS ALWAYS BEEN A PLACE OF HIGH ADVENTURE--FASCINATING, MYSTERIOUS, DANGEROUS AND DEADLY. IN EIGHT GRIPPING TALES, AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR THEODORE TAYLOR CAPTURES THE POWERFUL DRAMA OF THE MIGHTY SEA AND THE EXCITEMENT OF THOSE WHO DARE TO CHALLENGE IT.

For as long as I can remember, It's just been Daddy and me. I can't remember my mother. I was told she died in an accident when I was four, and that's all I know about her. I don't understand why there isn't even a picture of her. The other thing I don't understand is why we're always moving -- different towns -- with no explanations. I know something is wrong. It begins with my birth certificate-- my only link to my mother. Then I overhear a conversation: "Tell terri the truth ," Why are we moving all the time? Are we running away from something or someone? What kind of secret is Daddy hiding...and why can't he share it with me.

Orphaned at fourteen, Susan Carlisle is suddenlythe owner of her parents' beautiful Iowa home,two thousand sheep . . . and a huge debt that puts herat the mercy of a scoundrel determined to take it all the away. With barely a moment of hestation, Susan heads for California to sell the sheep, and paythe debt. Along the way she bravely faces thehardships and excitement of the western trail, and boldly ropes an American cowboy intoher scheme . . . and into her heart.