You grow to the physical age of eighteen and stop until you have found your soulmate. Your perfect match. You will grow old together. Sounds like the perfect deal, right? Unless you are Terric D'Artusio, the power hungry heartthrob. Why die and gain a new body if you already have a perfect one? Why lose all your knowledge, power, and money? Why not just kill your soulmate and never age and never lose anythig? That's exactly what Terric does. For six hundred and twelve years he has found and killed his soulmate. Never hard. They are always the same. Except for Naira Vogel. The orphan who made it big and is onto his scheme and doesn't plan of making it easy for him.

There's nothing more depressing than finding yourself alone on Christmas, but that's exactly where Holly Watkins finds herself. And she's not the only one. Ben Harrington, the mysterious recluse across the hall, is also decidedly alone, and even if it's just by singing Christmas carols, Holly is determined to make the holidays a little bit better for the both of them. All she has to do is convince him there's something worth celebrating.

(TH#4)"His mind is a chaotic mess, built of the kind of stuff you read about in a Stephen King novel. He couldn't control his anger any more than I could control my stomach from rumbling when I was hungry. He thought cursing like a sailor at others was morally acceptable, and most of all didn't seem to give a rat’s ass about himself. Any normal person would have stayed far, far away. But me? Well, I wasn't normal.” When Lilia Matthews' argumentative and dysfunctional family becomes too much to bear, she moves in with her grandfather for a summer in Heart, North Carolina. What she doesn't expect? Alec Grey. He's creepy, and dark, and frankly everything Lilia doesn't need to be getting involved with. But he has a few problems of his own. Besides the fact that he's certifiably crazy, he can't remember any of the events that led to him showing up on her grandfather's doorstep. And Lilia's apparent mission? To help him regain those memories. When they clash it's like fire and ice, but as Alec and Lilia find out, it's the craziest moments of all when that fine line between love and hate seems to blur. When you find out maybe going against the world all on your own isn't all it's cracked up to be. And that sometimes, it takes delving into the insanity of another to find the sanity within yourself.