The plot follows a group of bankrupt teens living in the town of Grace, California.
The series was published starting in 2005 through Simon Pulse and consists of seven books, each named after one of the seven deadly sins.
The books by release date are Lust, Envy, Pride, Wrath, Sloth, Gluttony, and Greed.
[1] The series was adapted into a TV miniseries in 2010 that starred Dreama Walker, Rachel Melvin, Jared Keeso, Reila Aphrodite, and Eric Close.
Kaia has sparked a relationship with her teacher Jack Powell and mechanic Reed Sawyer.
They then sent the pictures to Adam causing him to believe Beth cheated on him with his best friend Kane and he breaks up with her.
Beth discovers it was actually Harper and Kane who caused the whole thing at Kaia's New Years Party.
This leads to a flyer being passed around the school about the different people — mainly Kane, Harper, Adam, and Kaia although there were a few others just to spread it around to not look like a personal attack.
They go driving out of town and a red van wanders into their lane and crashes into the sports car killing Kaia.
In "Sloth" she realizes she has to live her life the way she wants and starts to let people in and opens up.
He misses his best friend and wants to start his friendship with Harper again but she won't speak to him.
He convinces her not to and is the only person who really doesn't care but wants to figure out what really happened that night.
She travels with them there but it takes a turn when she runs into her old enemies and Reed flirts with a pretty girl named Starla.
She gets confused when Reed tells her he loves her and she runs away, afraid that he'll figure out that she killed Kaia.
Having no life and no boyfriend she goes to the roof of the hotel and tries to jump off but Harper, Adam and Reed convince her to get down and she realizes there is more to live for than just being happy.
She starts off by joining Harper and Kane's group, destroying Beth's rep, dating and sleeping with her teacher who is hiding a secret of his own, making Adam like her and just ruining people's lives.
Miranda is a smart, shy girl who has a huge crush on Kane Geary and is the redheaded friend of Harper.
Her date is ruined when Kane turns him in as a drug-dealer and thinks that he is trying to make her birthday terrible.
He breaks things off with Beth and becomes even more sad when his band loses until he starts a relationship with a girl named Starla.