High school student Clay Jensen lands in the center of a series of heartbreaking mysteries set in motion by a friend's tragic suicide.

Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.

Joe King can't kill himself. At a moment of supposed death, he sees his future flash before his eyes. A future driven by an adventure with the outrageous Tallulah.

A disgraced cop turned private detective takes a decades old missing person's case with devastating results.

Released from prison, Jimmy Tucker returns to the streets of Oakland to get back his money.