** Winner of The Watty's 2014: Collector's Dream Award ** ** This is a true story. Now FULLY edited ** I was diagnosed with Cancer a week before my 16th Birthday. I had Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma and had to undergo Chemotherapy and a Stem Cell transplant, back in 2003. My whole life changed. I wrote this book when I was 17, when all my treatment was over, to catalogue everything I had learned and experienced. I had no information about Cancer during my treatment; it was all aimed at adults and I was a teenager who didn't understand most of what happened. So I wrote this book. I was a teenager when I wrote, when I had Cancer and I wanted this to be an information, honest account of what it was really like to have Cancer and go through the treatment....from a teenager's perspective. It's sometimes funny, sometimes sad, always honest. There may be parts that you squint at, because you're embarrassed to read them...well, I was embarrassed writing them. But that's the whole point of honesty. To get it out in the open. To be real. And that's what this is.

When Matthew Hastings finally has the opportunity to travel to the place that he's dreamt of visiting for years, he won't let anything stop him. Not the ghost stories. The hauntings. Or even the fact that his pessimistic girlfriend has threatened to break up with him if he goes. In fact, it only makes him want to go more. Then when he finds out that his childhood crush, Kelsey Hendricks, is going to be attending with his closest friends, nothing will stop him from leaving. Now is his chance to tell her how he really feels. But will he get the chance? When a series of events traps the group underground in the tunnels of New Orleans, they soon discover... They're not the only ones in the tunnels. And they must find their way out by sunrise, or they will all be submitted to the horrors of... The Dying Game.

::::: XAVIER, was one of the best professional assassins until the day he was forced into retirement for insubordination. At the age of twenty - two, however, he is suddenly called back and given a new task; to recruit and train four potential assassins to succeed him in the Secret Service. He takes them under his wing and names the team he created of four potential assassins "SHADOWS," but the meaning behind the team could be more sinister than it appears. So, what happens when a mere fling with one of his protege turns into something more, something that was never meant to be, never meant to exist in the shadows... Follow along and unmask what's hidden within. BOOK COVER: RachelS8766 MOVIE POSTER: carpe-di3m TRAILER: carpe-di3m