Little Willy is about to win the National Dogsled Race, which would pay the $500 in back taxes on his grandfather’s Wyoming farm, when his dog Searchlight’s heart bursts just short of the finish line.

Isabel, an enslaved girl in New York during the American Revolution, breaks her friend Curzon out of a British prison, where he is sick with fever.

Tom Ripley murders the art collector Thomas Murchison, who was about to expose the Derwatt forgery scheme, and later the guilt-ridden forger Bernard Tufts falls to his death.

Dick Diver, a brilliant psychiatrist who married his wealthy patient Nicole, declines into alcoholism as she grows stronger.

Charles Wilcox attacks Leonard Bast, the father of Helen Schlegel’s unborn child, with a sword, and Leonard dies of a heart attack.

Cassia Reyes, who was officially Matched with her best friend Xander but fell in love with Ky Markham, watches the Society send Ky away to the Outer Provinces as punishment.

After Naoko, the troubled girl he loved, kills herself in the sanatorium, Toru Watanabe wanders Japan in grief.

Ben Richards, a poor man competing in a deadly TV game show where he must survive while hunters chase him, hijacks a plane.

Captain Frederick Wentworth, overhearing Anne Elliot tell Captain Harville that women love longest “when existence or when hope is gone,” writes her a passionate letter declaring he still loves her.

Wendy and her brothers return home from Neverland with the Lost Boys, who are adopted by the Darlings, but Peter refuses to grow up and stays in Neverland.