"A sensitive and awkward loner who is deeply concerned with the environment, sixteen-year-old Xie finds community in his rural town with Jo and Leni, two queer girls his age, with whom he frees some captive mink from a local farm. When Xie is the only one caught, his small world gets smaller: Kicked out of high school, he becomes increasingly connected with nature, spending his time in the birch woods behind his house, attending extremist activist...

"Hunter's 'A Search for Refuge' tells of Nash Banfield, hiding from society in a market town, and Lady Margaretta Fortescue, on the run from a mysterious threat and needing refuge. Camden's 'Summer of Dreams' follows the daughter of an army general, determined never to marry a man in uniform, and a West Point cadet just as determined to change her mind. Dykes's 'Up from the Sea' follows the romance between the daughter of a Southern lumber baron who...