[Book 1 of the Roller Coaster Series] Elite Academy is home to various teenagers from around the globe; rich or poor. Jade Thirlwall considers it her first home compared to her actual home in South Shields. She finds it warm and comforting until suddenly it all starts falling down around her: the musical she cares so much about is put on the line, backstabbing friends, hopeless love, snogging sessions, drugs, sex, hospital visits, bar fights, crying mania, revision and problems that aren't even hers. It's constantly up and down and that's what makes life a roller coaster, really.

18 year old Jade Thirlwall is forced to grow up and raise her 15 year old sister when her mother passes away from overdosing on heroin. What happens when the rent, bills, and fees add up and Jade cannot afford them? What extent will she go, to pay all of this off? Will Liam be able to help Jade? Liam Payne is a young new student-teacher for the choir, although he seems perfect, he isn't living the perfect life he seems to be showing. He has some hidden secrets, will Jade be able to uncover them? What they both need is love, are they willing to risk it all and give each other the love the have been needing all along?

Jade Thirlwall and Liam Payne are in the biggest bands in the entire world, the have everything they always wanted. Yet, they are both left heartbroken by the one's that they held close to their hearts, now they both have an empty space in their life. Will they turn to each other and help fill the empty void in each other's life or will they turn to someone else? © Copyrighted tomliloson