Book 1

When Lightening Strikes

by Meg Cabot and Jenny Carroll

Published 27 February 2001

Jess Mastriani has never been what you'd call a typical Midwestern teenager—her extracurricular activities, instead of cheerleading or 4-H, include fist-fights with the football team and month-long stints in detention. A part of Jess would like to be the prom queen her mother has always envisioned her being, but another part is secretly counting the days until she's saved up enough money to buy her own Harley.

Then something happens that guarantees Jess will be one of the in-crowd...at least until her newfound talent ends up getting her dead.


Book 2

Code Name Cassandra

by Meg Cabot and Jenny Carroll

Published 28 August 2001
The 'Lightning Girl' has lost her powers! Or at least that's what Jess would like the media and the government to think. All Jess wants is to be left alone - well except by Rob, the hottest senior in detention.
But it doesn't look like Jess is going to get her wish - especially not while she's stuck working at a summer camp for musically gifted kids who are more than interested in their councellor's psychic abilites.
When the father of a missing girl shows up begging her to find his daughter Jess knows that she can't refuse. But now the feds are on her trail again, as well as one very angry stepdad, who'd like to see Lightning Girl . . . dead.

Book 3

Safe House

by Meg Cabot and Jenny Carroll

Published 1 March 2002
"Help me find my little girl."

Jess Mastriani -- dubbed "Lightning Girl" by the press when, after a huge storm, she develops a psychic ability to find missing children -- has lost her miraculous powers. Or has she? She would like the media and the government to think so. All Jess wants is to be left alone, by everyone except sexy Rob Wilkins -- who still hasn't called, by the way....

But it doesn't look like Jess is going to get her wish -- especially not while she's stuck working at a summer camp for musically gifted kids. Then the father of a missing girl shows up to beg Jess to find his daughter. Jess can't say no, but now the feds are on her trail again, as is one ornery stepdad, who'd like to see Lightning Girl...well, dead.

Book 4

Sanctuary

by Meg Cabot and Jenny Carroll

Published 1 January 2002
Jessica Mastriani knew she wasn't going to be able to hide her psychic powers from the US government forever - but she never thought that she'd actually have something in common with one of their agents! Especially as that agent is Dr Cyrus Krantz , who had previously been brought in to 'convince' Jess to join his elite team of 'specially gifted' crime-solvers, when all they were after was using her special skills for their own ends. But when a local boy's disappearance and untimely death is attributed to a backwoods militia group, Jess' goal - to find another missing local child - and Dr Krantz's - to stop a group of madmen before they kill again - turn out to be one and the same...

Book 5

1-800-Where-R-You #5: Missing You

by Meg Cabot

Published 1 December 2006
Jess is a shadow of her former self, her powers gone, Lightning Girl no more. But Jess knows her powers aren't the only thing that's gone: she's lost herself, as well. Starting over in a new town, intent on finding a new life in college, Jess is less than happy when Rob Wilkins, her ex, shows up at her door, begging her to help him find his long lost sister. But how can Jess, her powers gone, find anyone? Let alone the sister of a man she once loved (and believed, wrongly, loved her back) when she can't even find herself?

Books 1-2

Vanished Books One & Two

by Meg Cabot

Published 31 March 2011

Books 3-4

Vanished Books Three & Four

by Meg Cabot

Published 4 January 2011
Ever since Jessica Mastriani was struck by lightning, she's had the ability to find missing people. But her amazing new power came at a cost: national fame and a crushing responsibility that Jess never asked for. The only way she knows how to get back her old life is to lie and say she’s lost her gift.

But when Jess’s classmates start to disappear, she's accused of being involved. Jess’s only chance to clear her name is to use her powers. But this will only bring back all the old nightmares: the press, the FBI, everyone who seems to want a piece of her . . . including the guy she once gave her heart to. Time is running out, and it seems as if Jess is the only one who can save her friends. But even if she succeeds, will there be anyone to save her?