In an effort to shake off the constraints of her parents' rich, self-satisfied lifestyle, Emma lands a summer job as an au pair girl on a resort island off the coast of Maine.

Working as au pairs for the summer on a resort island, Emma and Sam worry that Carrie's new personality will get her fired when the young woman decides to shed her squeaky clean image and win the boy of her dreams

Determined to become a successful model, Sam ignores the warning signs when a photographer with dubious credentials takes photographs of her in revealing outfits and then asks her to go away with him for the weekend

Friends Emma, Carrie, and Sam are working summer jobs on a resort island where love and jealousy fill the air

Fifth in the Sunset Island series. Emma, Sam, and Carrie have just completed their first semester in college. Making new friends, studying, and meeting cute guys made the last few months hectic, and the three friends are more than ready to reunite for the Christmas break.

During their road trip to Sunset Island, Carrie, Emma, and Samantha encounter adventure when their car breaks down, they hit a spell of bad weather, and Carrie snaps some photos that send them all on the lam. Original.

Sam is ecstatic when she receives an offer from a talent scout to dance in Japan, but she cannot understand the resistance she is getting from her friends and family. Original.

Asked to do a Sunset Island photoessay, budding shutterbug Carrie begins her assignment but is torn between submitting beautiful photos or photos that reveal the grittier side of Sunset Island. Original.

With Kurt in jail, accused of armed robbery, it's up to Emma to prove that he did not do it, but first she must find the one girl on the island who can prove Kurt's innocence.

When the hot rock group, Flirting with Danger, holds auditions, Emma wins herself a job as backup singer, Carrie becomes group photographer, and Sam takes a stab at group dancer. Original.

Sam, Emma, and Carrie celebrate Christmas—Hawaiian Style. Totally bummed out by plastic Santas and irritable holiday crowds, Carrie, Emma, and Sam pack up their sunblock and bikinis and head for a super Hawaiian Christmas—complete with coral reefs, luaus, and of course romance. Includes a special preview of Sunset After Dark (Berkley 3/93).

Sam contemplates flying to California for a weekend to meet her birth mother, Carrie embarks on yet another photo stint, and Emma falls for Sam's new-found brother Adam

Special summer excitement for the bestselling Sunset Island series. Emma, Sam, and Carrie return to Sunset Island for four more months of fun and romance—and so will girls aged 12 to 16!

Samantha and Emma hit the road as part of a hot new band called Flirting with Danger, Carrie comes along to do a documentary on the band, and Kurt becomes part of the crew. Original.

Emma and Kurt are set for a summer of romance at the beach, but when Emma's dad shows up with a new girlfriend and is talking about marriage, she struggles with her feelings. Original.

While Samantha, Emma, and Carrie are working as extras on the set of a new slasher film, Samantha and Emma becomes jealous when Carrie is selected for a small role in the film. Original.

Sam feels pulled in three different directions when an amazing guy asks her to be his competitive dance partner, another guy from Disney World asks her out, and her steady, Pres, demands her fidelity.

Join Emma, Carrie, and Samantha in Sunset Wedding—as Emma takes a trip down the aisle in a spectacular Sunset Island Special. When Emma decides to join the Peace Corps, Kurt asks her to marry him before she goes.

When Sam lands a role in a Broadway show, she and Emma and Carrie head for the Big Apple, where Emma checks out modeling agencies and Carrie sets her sights on fashion photography.

After writing to her long-lost birth father's parents in Israel, Sam discovers that he is a recently freed Israeli hostage, that he had never known of her existence, and that he is coming to Sunset Island to visit her. Original.

As her relationship with Billy grows ever more intimate, Carrie asks her boyfriend to take an AIDS test, but while the results come back negative for HIV, they also reveal that Billy may have leukemia. Original.

Emma and Samantha cannot be happier when their band, Flirting With Danger, is offered a recording contract with Polimar Records, but the deal turns sour when Diana De Witt's father buys the record company and Diana threatens to have Emma and Samantha fired. Original.

With Diana out of The Flirts, talented but overweight newcomer Erin Kane becomes the new singer for the band, and her self-confidence and self-esteem force everyone to confront their prejudices toward overweight people. Original.

Samantha is delighted when the owner of a boutique asks her to design some outfits for the store, while Carrie and Emma embark on their own business enterprise selling perfume. Original.

Carrie becomes upset when her boyfriend, Billy Sampson, is forced to leave Sunset Island because of his father's illness and the need to take over running his family's business. Original.

When Emma turns to Pres for help while she tries to work things out in her relationship with Kurt, her friendship with Samantha is threatened by jealousy. Original.

After getting into a terrible fight, Emma, Samantha, and Carrie have similar dreams about what the three of them will be doing ten years into the future, and what a mutual enemy will finally get as just desserts. Original.

In the twenty-fifth book in the best-selling Sunset Island series, Samantha suspects Diana and Lorell are out to get her disqualified from the Miss Sunset Island pageant. Original.

Emma's mother is upset by her relationship with Kurt, and threatens to disinherit her

When Sam is no longer needed as an au pair, she's left with no job and no place to live. Being the world's worst waitress, she also loses a new job at a local restaurant. The Flirts, a band which includes her boyfriend Pres, offer her a place in their house. Sam's not sure how that will work out, but it looks like her only way to stay on Sunset Island.

Spending the holidays at Emma's aunt's vacation house in the Vermont White Mountains, the band members of Flirting With Danger are hired to perform a promising gig, until Erin's laryngitis places Diana on lead vocals. Original.

Learning about her boyfriend Billy's hopes that she will move to Seattle with him and get married, Carrie is torn between her Yale education and more romantic goals.

When the Flints land a big recording contract with Polimar Records, the original members of the gang join together again and launch a tour, but their subsequent adventures change everyone's lives. Original.

Readers have been pining to find out what happens to Carrie, Emma, Sam and the rest of the gang on Sunset Island. Now Cherie Bennett offers a sensational finale to the popular Sunset Island series—proving that the summer may end, but friendship is forever.