Psychologist Norman Johnson, biochemist Beth Halpern and mathematician Harry Adams escape the underwater habitat after learning that a mysterious alien sphere gave them the power to make their thoughts and fears real.

Eragon, a farm boy who becomes a Dragon Rider, kills the Shade Durza in the battle of Farthen Dûr, saving the Varden rebels.

Kino throws the pearl back into the sea after his infant son Coyotito is killed.

Benjamin Button, born as a seventy-year-old man who ages backward, grows younger until he becomes a baby in his son’s household.

Addie LaRue, who made a deal with a mysterious being of the darkness called Luc in 1714 to live forever but be forgotten by everyone she meets, finally finds Henry Strauss, a man who remembers her.

Celia Bowen and Marco Alisdair, magicians trained to compete in a deadly contest through Le Cirque des Rêves, fall in love and find a way to end the game without either dying: they bind themselves to the circus as ghostly figures.

John Tyree learns that Savannah has married Tim and later that Tim has died.

David, a grieving twelve-year-old who escaped into a dark fairy-tale world, defeats the Crooked Man by refusing to trade his half-brother Georgie for a way home.

Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio, strangers who receive calls from Death-Cast telling them they will die that day, spend their last day together and fall in love.

Twins Noah and Jude Sweetwine, who stopped speaking after their mother’s death, finally tell each other the secrets they have been hiding about the art school applications and about their mother’s last days.