Penelope Milford

At Westerburg High where cliques rule, jocks dominate and all the popular girls are named Heather, it's going to take a Veronica and mysterious new kid to give teen angst a body count.

In 1968 California, a woman whose husband is a Marine officer fighting in Vietnam falls in love with a former high school classmate who suffered a paralyzing combat injury in the war.

Parental disapproval of a passionate romance between teenagers Jade Butterfield and David Axelrod leads to arguments, circumstance, insanity and tragedy.

A battered wife sets the bed on fire with her husband in it.

Frank is sent to his native town, Millsborough, to increase the local brewery production. He meets old school mates and his former girlfriend, Jane. They quickly fall in love again. Frank is torn between his job.