A Solitary Blue is the third of six books that deal with the Tillerman family.

Each book depicts many of the same characters but through different eyes.

Jeff Greene figures in four of the six books. He first appears as a minor character in Dicey's Song, as an insecure, frightened, but likable teen-ager who is drawn to the Tillermans. A Solitary Blue is Jeff's story. Jeff surfaces next in Come a Stranger, where he is seen through Mina Smith's eyes. Mina describes Jeff as one of those rare people who have the capacity to love deeply, and she says that he has never fallen in love with anyone but Dicey Tillerman. In Sons from Afar, Mrs. Tillerman reflects briefly on Jeff's personality, and readers learn that he has gone away to college. The other two books in the Tillerman series are Homecoming, the first book about...