In this futuristic retelling of Beauty and the Beast, Bo is the leader of a group of refugees with no homes to return to. It is the time after a great war between the inhabitants of earth and creatures from another planet. Now the humans rely on scavenging the war-torn remains of the blast zones to keep themselves alive. When Bo's father is late returning from a hunt, she knows something has gone wrong. Fearing that he might have taken her request to bring back a now-extinct rose seriously, Bo sets off to find him in the Dead Woods. Only, when she does find her father, she also finds an enemy that was thought to have left the planet long ago. Bo is forced to choose between her freedom or her father, her refugees or a creature she wants to kill with every fiber of her being.

A jolt. A small hitch in the rhythmic beating of my heart. Dèjà vu didn't even begin to describe it. ... My heart stopped, my breath jostled forward, shock rippling through my system. It happened again. For a few precious seconds my mind froze up and, together with my body, went into a complete lockdown. It was the same each time I saw him.

Highest Rank - #2 Teen Fiction (28/04/2019) Lily and Dylan were inseparable, they were best friends if you'd like from birth. Lily's mom and Dylan's mom were childhood best friends, and just so happened to give birth on the same day. When Lily was 5 her mom died in a car accident and she was left with her drunk of a father and when Lily was just 10 years old, the person who helped her cope with it all, Dylan, moved away without a word and hasn't spoken to her since. He was the one who would defend her in the school yard, the one who was always there to help her through tough times, but since he's been gone Lily's life changed drastically. So when Dylan suddenly shows up at school 8 years later, Lily doesn't know what to do, especially since he is no longer the sweet, innocent and caring boy he once was. Instead he has become a player, a stereotypical 'bad boy' and has every girl wrapped around his finger, except Lily. Why did he come back? And will Lily fall for his charms or will she leave him heart broken just as he did her?