Seventeen-year-old April Parker wakes up in an underground facility, a shock bracelet on her wrist and a five-day countdown on the clock. Dozens of other teens share her inexplicable fate, but their unseen captors never intervene no matter how brutal conditions become. When the ruthless - and unnervingly magnetic - Marcus seizes control, April's trauma-forged instinct is to lay low. But protecting her friends drives her to bargain with the boy she should fear most - a boy whose reality fractures with every tick. Then the countdown ends, and the real terror begins. Powers ignite. Alliances shatter. And predators are born. And with a saboteur among them determined to keep the doors closed forever, escaping what comes next may be the only way to survive it.

Meet Madeline Harwell, a bruised and broken young girl who is new to the town. She has had to grow up faster than most teenagers; looking after her three year old brother and protecting him from their alcoholic abusive mother. She has no friends and is set on keeping it that way so that she can keep her home life a secret from the world. Meet Kyle Gray, who has lived in this town his whole life. He has everything that he could have ever wished for, aside from the perfect girl. When he meets Madeline, he is intrigued and is determined to find out exactly what has happened to her.

"You know what this company runs on?" he whispered. "What?" she said softly not really wanting to hear the answer. "Secrets." "But what happens if someone doesn't want to keep any of the secrets anymore? What if they're just tired of lying?" "Then they die." For those apart of Pulia, an undercover organisation, it is either live the heartless rich life or die a lover. Pain and lies is what this secret society runs on. When Daniel, the second-hand man in the company, and his team gets assigned to a mental patient without any explanation, it leaves them all wondering where their loyalty lies. Welcome to a world where the good and bad guys are unknown, the truth is just a bunch of lies, false loyalty is disguised as admiration and those you love the most are the ones to betray. Minds turn against each other, blood drops and secrets are revealed. 7 stories, 3 intertwined love triangles and 1 mission. When your life is on the line, each and every secret can make a difference between life and death. But lying isn't the only way to keep the secrets hidden, sometimes the only thing you can do is just Hiding The Pain.

Ellie Devlin's life could hardly be classified as perfect, but it was tolerable. That is, until her mother, Moira, started dating again. Now that Jack and her mom are getting pretty serious, Ellie has to deal with the possibility of having a stepdad in the picture, and if that wasn't enough, a step-brother too! Drew Hamilton was hot; that was undeniable. But, he was also a loner, and behind his reserved attitude, dark clothes, and his flashy motorbike, there was a sweet guy waiting to be unleashed. For those of you looking for a fun, light read, carry on... ------------------------------------------------------------- LENGTH: 87,000 words or 334 pages ** Edited by DanaScully**

When Arianna marries billionaire Zach Price to save her family, she doesn't expect to fall in love with a man who'd always consider her a second choice. An unexpected turn of events brings the couple closer together, but can a marriage based on lies and deceit ever survive? ***** When Arianna's older sister, Olivia, decides to run away on the day of her wedding, Arianna is forced to take her place to save her family from ruin. But her new husband is angry, heartbroken, and seems to hate her guts. The cold, elusive billionaire Zach Price has never quite struck Arianna as the kind of man she'd want to spend her entire life with. She was more than content with her sweet, thoughtful boyfriend Noah, but when circumstances force them together, Zach and Arianna's hearts get entangled in a way she never saw coming. As the couple grows closer, they must battle the demons of their past and of the lives they left behind - especially when Olivia returns and decides she wants Zach all for herself. Content/Trigger Warning: This story contains scenes of violence and sexual abuse, and mentions abortion and miscarriage. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]] Cover designed by Ren Tachibana

Pretty outfits and looks can't hide someone's loops. This is a quote Elizabeth Mason is very much familiar with. Liza wanted nothing more but to live her life normally, well as normal as it can get for a Maestran kid anyway, aka "School for the Troublemakers". But one single dare will change her life forever when Jake Stoll, one of her best friends dares her to go to Charmond's Academy aka "The School for the Ugly Prince and Princesses." She will learn how to walk, talk and act like a princess in order to survive this dare. But as she goes further in further into this dare the more she realizes that this is way more complicated as she thought it was. Will she accomplish her dare? What if what she finds out isn't exactly what she's looking for? Experience the excitement and fun as Liza uncover the secrets, lies and adventures ahead of her and her gang. Because this is not your regular dare game. And who knows? She might even find Prince Charming in all this mess.

Gwen Harper is living a life in a city, she has a boyfriend that she cares about very much and her own apartment. Things seem to be going well for her. But, she has PTSD, which has chains wrapped around her mind and body as she spends everyday trying to fight back the memories of her childhood. Lindsay Harper has been put in a mental hospital, where she has retreated into herself and has become Catatonic. That is, until Gwen receives a phone call from the mental hospital and they tell her that her sister snapped out of her condition suddenly and managed to escape. Gwen decides to go looking for her herself. But, the answer to where Lindsay would most likely go lies in the memories that Gwen has suppressed. She had to fight her demons and hopefully find her sister and work through hers as well. Things start to fall apart as Gwen starts to lose the grip on the life she used to have and her sanity. Finding her sister will be impossible if she isn't in the right mind.

"Good guys are like unicorns, everybody talks about them, but nobody has actually seen one." Samantha has been in and out of foster homes for the past six years, but all this seems to be coming to an end when her uncle tracks her down. When he offers her to come and live with him everything changes; her outlook on life and her relation to people. Being enrolled at a private school for rich kids isn't exactly ideal in Samantha's situation and she encounters several obstacles in her so called "new life". Keeping her past hidden proves to be more difficult than she had originally assumed, and more painful.

Zack: heartthrob of Miami with an amazing body and an impressive bank account; but he can't flirt. Ella: Beautiful, wanted, incredibly flirty... And just lost her boyfriend. Zack and Ella agreed on helping each other; Zack would make Ella's ex. jealous and Ella would teach him how to flirt in return. Living their pretense and experiencing the best, most intense summer ever with all their games and teasers to annoy Ella's ex., they start to realise that they forgot one very important rule... " In the middle of all the flirting, love always finds a way" * This is a "true love conquers all" type of story.

Vanessa Laine is a college student and aspiring musician. She's got the look and she's got the voice. The only thing that's stopping her is her stage fright...and an opportunity. But opportunity knocks when pop-punk band, The Velocity, holds auditions for a new lead singer at the restaurant that Vanessa works at. Getting in was the easy part. Surviving as the only girl in the band is the hard part. Can she do it?