A demented serial killer has emerged in the quiet city of Burnham, one who seems to tear its victims apart like a wild animal and mutilate their organs. The leading officers on the case think it to be a mad man, but a new officer on the force, Leroy Bellamy, thinks the murder might connect to a popular speakeasy and it's recently deceased owner, Wesley Orwell. With the help of a young journalist, Leroy must find out the killer and whats behind his motives in the twisted web of mystery that was Mr.Orwell's fortune.

It was pity that first made Dannie speak to him. She had known Ryan since she was a kid, but he had always been the popular Golden Boy, and she had always been the tomboy that didn’t mind not having any friends. It was odd, she had thought, that all the popular kids who had once kissed the ground he walked on, didn’t so much spared him a glance anymore, and it was this that made her sit with him that one faithful day and begin something that would only end up causing her pain.

This is a dark and heart breaking account of a seventeen year old boy who is forced to experience the harshest events life could throw at him. Taken from his home in a tragic kidnapping at the age of five, Flynn Nichols undergoes twelve years of excruciating pain and hardship at the Facility in Sector Five. When he wakes up one morning in Sector Seventeen, surrounded by a group of people with similar experiences as himself, he can't even begin to imagine what life has in store for him. Together with the others, including Charlotte, the grey eyed girl with the black hoody, they undergo events that challenge their every emotion, and throw them in every direction.

What would you do if you opened a door and found another world awaiting on the other side? What would you do when you found out the inhabitants of this world depended on you for their salvation from an evil Chancellor? And how far would you go to reach your greatest potential? Join Anna Kippling as she discovers hers in a world filled with magic,evil, heros and love. A world called Tatania.

When you're marked you have two choices; fight or die. Nance lives in the past, literally. Her city is a recreation of early twenty-first century society. To the outside world they're experiments, just rats running around a maze. In an impoverished future world, the city seems to be their only chance of finding where they went wrong, or so they say. Nance doesn't know the real purpose of her home, and she doesn't care. All she sees are the one hundred teenagers, just like her, who are killed every year in the barbaric ritual known as the marking. They tattoo your face and pit you against your peers, against the city. Nance doesn't know why, but it doesn't matter, because she's sixteen and it's her turn to be marked. **So I decided to replace the original story with the rewrite because they are pretty much exactly the same. Plus, it's a lot less complicated then having two separate books for the same story.** There is a * next to all rewritten chapters. THE ORIGINAL VERSION IS COMPLETE. IT'S JUST NOT MARKED AS SUCH BECAUSE I GAVE UP ON THE REWRITE.