After a freak accident kills her parents, 18-year old Anastasia McCall moves to the small town of Lexington located in Georgia. Having just graduated, and her parents death, she's decided to skip college and start her life. Despite having to live with her aunt Shelley, whom she's never met, she finds herself attracted to the small towns atmosphere. But when people start to go missing and a slew of deaths are reported almost every night, she wonders just how safe she actually is in this tiny town with a population of 224. But Anastasia finds herself indulging in the towns mysteries. As she finds herself exploring one day, she meets someone. A very special someone. Cover by: drewsarianah

Nothing is as it seems.

"M-Michael?" I stuttered He smirked then chuckled at me. "You didn't think I would find you? Did you?" He smirked. "I-I..." I was shocked. How did he find me? His smirk turned to a serious and intimidating one. He started walking towards me in long strides. I turned around and started running, but didn't get very far when I felt hands wrap around my waist. "Let me go!" He chuckled and whispered in my ear, "I'll never let you go again princess." I felt tears sting my eyes and blur my vision. He picked me up and threw me over his shoulder. "No!" I cried and banged on his solid back. I saw that he was leading me towards his car. "No! Michael don't! Please don't!" He chuckled, "you won't be saying that for long baby girl." He put me down easily and caged me in. My back on the car door and his hands on the roof of the car. His warm minty breath fanned across my face. He brought his face down to my neck and started kissing. I squirmed to get out, but he brought his hands down to my hips to hold me in place. He brought his head up to look me in the eyes and brought both his hands up to my face. "I love you baby girl." He opened the back door, where the windows are tinted. "Get in." He said I looked to the door then him and shook my head. He narrowed his eyes at me and they instantly turned darker. He grabbed my arm roughly and threw me in. I landed on my stomach and I looked back to see Michael coming in a bit. I turned to look at the door in front of me and I moved up and tried to open it. I tugged and tugged and then I heard chuckling behind me. "Aren't child safety locks great baby girl?" He smirked at me. I felt tears run down my cheeks. He pulled my arm so I was close to him again. He wiped away my tears with his thumb. "Don't cry baby, please, you know it breaks my heart to see you hurt." "Then l-let me go.

Mattie Noelle is a simple girl that only knows of school, dance, and her overbearing mother that keeps her hidden away in the walls of their "perfect" home. She believes she's invisible and that no one could look twice; then comes the captivating boy next door, Jaxson Maddox. A disturbed high school senior with a dark look and an equally dark past that stalks Mattie and has an end goal of keeping her all to himself; no matter what it may take. RATED MATURE Highest Ratings thus far: #1 Stalker #3 Horror #3 Bad boy next door #8 Mature Audience #6 Creepy #96 Fiction

There is always someone that wants your happiness gone. "Come back to me." - Jace Sparks Lots of grammar errors. Read at your own risk.

This is the original, unedited version of Light as a Feather, Book #1. This book was the inspiration for the Hulu Original Series. The revised version is now available in bookstores throughout the USA & Canada from Simon Pulse. McKenna Brady thinks her junior year of high school is going to be the best ever when she's welcomed into the elite group of popular girls at Weeping Willow High School led by blonde, gorgeous Olivia Richmond. Prior to junior year, McKenna was known in her small town as the girl whose twin sister died in a tragic house fire, and she's overjoyed at the prospect of redefining her identity. She has a date to the Homecoming dance with Olivia's handsome older brother, and a good chance of being elected to student council. For the first time since McKenna's parents divorced, things are looking up. But everything changes the night of Olivia's Sweet Sixteen sleepover birthday party. Violet, the shy, mysterious new girl in town, suggests that the girls play a scary game called Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board, during which Violet makes up elaborate stories about the future ways in which beautiful Olivia, brassy Candace, and athletic Mischa will die. The game unsettles McKenna because she's already escaped death once in her life, but she doesn't want to ruin her friends' fun. It's only a game, she reminds herself.

This is the sequel to Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board, the first book in the Weeping Willow High School series.