28 year old Martin Carter is a self-made billionaire. He's made his business through computers and sleeping around. Nothing has gotten in his way as he ventures to reach the top. No woman. No child. No other man. Society was falling to their knees at the very mention of him. Unfortunately, that was the old Martin. The new Martin Carter is in trouble. He's invested in the wrong people and in the wrong companies, and after ten years on top, it's coming around to bite him in the ass. Luckily enough, he has a good mentor, supporting parents, and looks that could kill. Now all he needs is a rich wife. 26 year old Marie is not a billionaire, or a millionaire. She isn't even rich. She works as a maid at a local motel in South Carolina. Her aspiration; become a journalist. First step; finish college. Second step; earn enough money to go to Europe for a summer. Third step; write a book about it. Seems like a simple enough list. Unfortunately, Marie meets Mr. Carter. He's grieving, she's working. She needs the money, he has it. So they strike a deal. She sleeps with him and he gives her the money. Easy enough right? Wrong. They both have other things in mind, but neither of them include falling in love.

Emery Price was perfectly fine with being a wallflower. In fact, she applauded the idea. There was nothing she wanted more than to get through her senior year unnoticed, distraction-free, with high honors and an acceptance letter to a prestigious university. Fox Evans, gorgeous and irresponsible, is the playboy that blurred her perfectly-planned vision. With his dirty jokes, dashing smirk, and notorious reputation, he unintentionally kills any chances of Emery being in the background. Though as time passes, she seems to mind less and less...

Prince John's biggest fear? Becoming King, and everything to do with it, from the sheltered life, to someday having to get married. Celia, a lady knight, minus the 'Lady' if she can help it, is not looking forward to coming of age and attending the High Ball which she thinks is nothing more than a market for single girls. The two have hated each other since childhood, but when the stress gets to John and he does something drastic, Celia's the only one who can help.

Natalie Abernathy was born into a world where the lines on your skin tell everyone who you are. They appear like tattoos and change with every choice you make, every person you meet. Only one line remains constant. Your love line. The only colored line on the human's skin, a blood red mixed in with the black. Natalie's world is consumed with The Sickness, the next stage in human evolution that can strike you when you are fourteen. Or doesn't. If you survive The Sickness, you become one of the Elite, faster, stronger, smarter than the humans who don't get The Sickness. The Elite's lines are colorful, beautiful in their own way. A mixture of deepest purples, the darkest blues, and dominate greens. They cover the black lines the Elite were given at birth, rewriting their destinies forever. As Natalie comes to find, the Elite aren't what they seem. The Sickness is not what it seems. Her heart is broken by the loss of her best friend Cecil McCourt, who succumbed to The Sickness days before their shared fifteenth birthday. Her friends surround her, trying to fill the void left by Cecil. Time moved on, carrying Natalie along with it. Now it's three years later, everyone's senior year. Days before school starts, Natalie befriends the new boy in town, Union Davidson. Cecil (now known as Cyrus) is quick to warn her away from him. At first she thinks it's a trick but as things start to happen, Natalie finds herself trapped between the thing she wants most in the world and something else quite darker than she imagined. © SCCourtney ~ * ~ Finalist in the Watty's 2012

Madison's life has been one bad thing after the next,but things starts to change when she starts to attend a prestige school for the rich, she does want or plan on making friends she just wants good grades so she can take care of all her loved ones, but when the schools hotty Jeremy and his mob of crazy, funny, charming and player friends gain a way into her heart what will happen? What will happen when they find out about her secrets and what it’s like to live on the not so rich side of town? What it’s like to take care of the ones you loved without any thought for yourself? And for Jeremy and Madison, maybe even, what it’s like to fall in love with someone with a completely different life? Put all that together add two energetic twin siblings who need to be saved, Famous parents (Famous for all the wrong reasons), a player who falls in love, lots and lots of street racing and to top it off a BAD girl with a heart of gold and a way to make everything fun. Well this should be quite a story.