Female Protagonists 2007-2014

Still a stranger to her own body, a high school student discovers she has a physical advantage when she becomes the object of male violence.

Jenna is a pregnant, unhappily married waitress in the deep south. She meets a newcomer to her town and falls into an unlikely relationship as a last attempt at happiness.

A meddling mother tries to set her daughter up with the right man so her kid won't follow in her footsteps.

Grace, a football enthusiast, fights an uphill battle to play in the boys' varsity team of her high school and gain support for women's soccer while dealing with the death of her brother.

Fifteen year-old soccer prodigy Sara Davis has a chance to join the U.S. national team, but she must juggle high school, romance, sports, and parental pressure while deciding her own priorities.

A journalist goes undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill as her childhood friend's killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of online cat-and-mouse.

A Manhattan book editor finds her take on the game of romance changed after she lures the attention of an influential older man.

A reporter wakes up in a morgue and finds herself a member of the undead, before vowing revenge against the sect which put her there.

Optimistic Jasper Cates and gloomy Callie Morgan initially clash, but grow closer while waiting desperately for life-saving transplant organs in a specialized university hospital ward. Finally they get them, actually from the same donor. Jasper keeps in touch with Callie, like virtual lovers, and works out that the donor left an orphan girl. She lives with her grandfather, who opposes his plan for both of them to enter her life.

A precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.

Teen detective Nancy Drew accompanies her father on a business trip to Los Angeles, where she happens upon clues to a murder mystery involving a movie star.

Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.

A young woman commits a hit-and-run, then finds her fate tied to her victim.

As a Washington, D.C. psychiatrist unearths the origin of an alien epidemic, she also discovers her son might be the only way it can be stopped.

A thirty-something columnist becomes legal guardian of her Amish sister's five children and ends up 'using' the kids' lives as stories for her column, causing them to feel betrayed, since they had believed she was truly concerned for them.

A college graduate goes to work as a nanny for a rich New York family. Ensconced in their home, she has to juggle their dysfunction, a new romance, and the spoiled brat in her charge.

In 1980s London, Nazneem, a young Bangladeshi woman, feels her soul is quietly dying in her arranged marriage, until the day hot-headed Karim comes knocking at her door.

Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes a selfless decision regarding the unborn child.

Struggling to recover emotionally from a brutal assault that killed her fiancé and left her in a coma, a radio personality begins a quest for vengeance against the perpetrators that leaves a bloody trail across New York City.

A mature Queen Elizabeth endures multiple crises late in her reign including court intrigues, an assassination plot, the Spanish Armada, and romantic disappointments.

Still traumatized by the disappearance of her three-year-old daughter 15 years ago, Julia Sandburg's old psychic wounds painfully resurface when she meets Louise; a troubled young woman with a checkered past.

Ten years have passed. Nikki's daughter Sarah, now 19 and heading West for college, is at her own spiritual crossroads. To make matters worse, her mother has recently revealed that, nearly a decade ago, she was the dinner guest of the Almighty himself. Thinking her mom is certifiably insane, Sarah strikes up an unlikely friendship with a travel companion who shares her disdain for religion.

After being banished from the most popular sorority on campus, Sydney White teams up with a group of socially awkward outcasts to outdo the queen at her own game.

Fay is a small town girl on a cross country road trip, trying to escape her own reality after the death of her father. When her muscle car breaks down during a drag race she finds herself stranded along route 66 in an isolated desert town. Short on cash, she makes a series of choices to make enough money to repair her car. After encountering a neurotic, drug abusing clown she finds herself sliding down a dark spiral. Soon thereafter, her road trip starts to devolve into a living nightmare. Trapped and desperate, she fights to regain her identity while navigating through a host of locals; a creepy motel clerk, an overzealous preacher, and a sexy temptress with horns and a tail.

Alice and Lester move to a new town where their dad's bought a music store. Alice starts in 6th grade and joins the theater club, hoping to be the musical's princess. She's insecure but imagines herself cool, cute, and confident.