Nichole has always lived a troubled life. With her dad always drunk or high, and her mom going on and off cocaine. Nichole's whole life twisted when she got the news that her Dad had passed away from being murdered. Her mom relapses on cocaine again and at school everyone mistreats her. Everything is falling apart. Trying to escape this horrible world, Nichole runs away to the cold city streets of New York. Begging on the street she meets, Damon. Instantly, she gets hooked in his mysterious and charming ways. But is Damon who he really says he is? Should Nichole trust him?

Nora is crippled by anxiety that lurks beneath a Good Girl shell. Lucas is drowning under the weight of his rage and depression. They've been best friends since they were babies living on the same suburban street and have never needed anything but each other, until they find a new method of escape. Gus is a poly-addict whose drug of choice is meth. He's been living on LA's infamous Skid Row for months. Being on his own is nothing new, and he's survived for years on the streets of Chicago and LA, trying to avoid being put back into foster care. But the system eventually catches up to him. When he meets Lucas and Nora at a court ordered rehab center for teens, he begins to question whether or not sobriety is possible for him... if it means confronting his past. This story was inspired by the heroin epidemic in suburban America. Book 1 of 3- undergoing full revision Possible triggers: descriptive drug use, language, sex, suicide ideology, self harm, domestic abuse, child abuse, sexual abuse of a minor, rape of a minor (including sodomy) and violence with descriptions of weapons, blood and gore. I go into detail and don't hold back. You've been warned.

He watches the entire world but he's no God. But if the God that exists sleeps, to whom must the world turn to? It's up to Gemini and his fellow guardians to restore what once was. As the prologue to the main Tolvia series, watch as the foundation for the future heroes are made.