On the night before Halloween, four high school friends choose to bail on the big costume party in favor of some holiday vandalizing, a choice with dire consequences.

Spider, a young gang leader, gets in over his head when he robs a notorious gangster. On the run, he’s taken in by a sheltered young woman and her reclusive…

Professor Lawrence Wetherhold might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant — but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and family, he’s as downright flummoxed…