A successful plus-sized adult film star agrees to star in a Christmas movie for a squeaky-clean cable network when her childhood crush and ex-boy band member signs on as co-star.

In World War II Italy, cello prodigy Elodie Bertolotti joins the Italian Resistance to Mussolini's fascist regime, and soon she must seek sanctuary with a young doctor who has painful secrets of his own.

Eighteen-year-old "music god wannabe" Sari Silver gets stranded in an airport with her cheating ex-boyfriend on the way to Spring Break in Florida.

Winston attends a weekend of puzzles at a famous musician's mansion, but when he and other young guests pursue a thief, they find themselves in big trouble. Puzzles for the reader to solve are included throughout the text.

A rock musician longing for stardom makes a difficult choice when his wife falls into a coma on the eve of his tour, before she wakes up with an incredible talent of her own.

A boy who enjoys music and fun at his grandparents' homes ends the quiet in his own by persuading his grandfathers, who immigrated from different countries, to get out their accordions and play. Includes author's note about his own immigrant grandparents.

Having faked his way into the Music and Art Academy, a performing arts school for gifted students where his talented older sister rules, sixth-grader Jake, a jokester who can barely play an instrument, will have to think of something quick before the last laugh is on him.

"Carpenter Whitney Whitaker, her cousin Buck, and guard-cat Sawdust just scored a hot property near downtown Nashville in a tax sale. While the Music City Motor Court might not be much to look at now, the two plan to transform the motel's twelve units into six one-bedroom condominiums. But surprises await when Whitney discovers a squatter living in Room 9 and her cat Sawdust uncovers a body in the bed next door"--Back cover.