Codi James is a chronic underachiever. A straight C student, her life is going nowhere. Causing havoc at yet another school it looks like she's heading for another expulsion, until one teacher decides to call in a favour from an old friend. Codi is sent to the one place where her aggression might do her some good. Joining the underdeveloped Brax-Delta training academy, Codi is set on the long, bruising path to compete as a champion in the Gauntlet Tournament. Thrown together with a team of other misfits and under the tutorage of a frustrated veteran, she has one chance left to prove that she's more than just a struggling orphan. Never underestimate a desperate person. WINNER OF 2014 WATTPAD PRIZE FOR BEST EPIC

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Maive is a young adult who has been brought up with an abusive father. The forest had been her only escape from hell, but what had made her come back nonetheless all these years? Was it fear? Or hope? Everything is quiet, Maive is lying in the warmth of her blanket, she feels as though she is being watched!

Her father was crazy, mad! He turned people, real, living, breathing, people into dolls for experiment. He had killed his wife and made his assistant, Maria, lie to Aya saying it was illness. She lived there for years under the hand of a mad man. When she and Maria managed to get away, barely escaping with their lives, Dio chose to burn the mansion down. It would lift the curse; destroy all trace of mad father's existence. Dio knew for a fact once the curse was lifted he and the other dolls would be nothing but simple lifeless shells. 'I thought the curse was lifted. Once the mansion burned down... I should be dead... Is he still there? Did he not die?' These are thoughts that run through Dio's mind daily. It's been years since that day. Aya would be about Dio'd age now. He often wonders what happened to both her and Maria. A new mansion was built in the place of the old one, which no one resigns in, or so the public thinks. The "dolls" that were not killed in the fire still roam the deserted halls. When one day Aya returns, Dio is afraid. If her father was not dead, she was in danger, but if he had been killed in the fire and the curse was not lifted then Aya may be going mad herself.

Selene is a "non-essential" crew member on a generational spaceship that classifies artists as insane. She and her fellow non-essential artists are given a rather unique assignment: create art they find beautiful, with no angle of making it essential for life on board the ship. As they hone their art skills, Selene teams up with a troubled sculptor and learns just how dangerous art--and being non-essential--can be. This novella takes place on the spaceship Godspeed and deals with characters seen in the Across the Universe series. You can read it without reading the novels, although it might be more fitting to read it after A Million Suns.