This is the first installment in the Tears of Shame series. This is a story of love, lust, loss of control and desperation. Arianna, a 19 year old human, is thrown into a life of duty when she is betrothed to marry a vampire prince. As the wedding day draws near a lot of crazy stuff happens that leads her life in a tragic direction. What will happen next? Is duty more important than love? Is love confused by lust? Has fate's hand been merciful or cruel? This is not your typical vampire love story. Well it is, but it has many interesting twists along the way.

When Corinna Evans' mother is sent to prison, Corinna has nowhere else to go so she moves back in with her father and his family. Determined to make it through these last few months of school, she only wants to keep a low profile and get by but someone keeps getting in her way. Tyler Flynn has been best friends with Corinna's brother forever and she's never liked him. What happens when her feelings start to change? And will her family ever forgive her for her past?

Taylor Thompson is every parent's dream daughter. She's in the smartest classes with fantastic grades and overall a well behaved child. The only problem is she has one secret she's kept from her family for years now. Taylor's bisexual. Trenton Clark is the new boy in town. He's not your typical bad boy though. Having been in jail twice already, Trenton's looking to ride out his last year of high school. He has no expectations to get into a college, no want to get a job. These two total opposites find themselves in each other's company more often than they'd like when Trenton quickly discovers Taylor's secret. Blackmail has suddenlytakenon a whole new meaning.

Joanna(Joey) has spent most of her life since her parents' divorce caring for her three year old brother, Mason. That's what she does while her mother goes out every night with a random guy. Joey's life has revolved around her brother. But when her mother decides that one pair of eyes just isn't enough, Joey finds herself competing for her mother's praise with a babysitter. Caden's two grades above Joey. He's never heard of her before, and she's never heard of him. As anger flairs and competition begins, Caden and Joey find themselves together more often than either one would like. Also, don't recommend your stories on mine. It's incredibly rude& I'm getting a little annoyed.

Chase Evans may be a notorious playboy, but he’s always known he’d fall hopelessly in love one day. So when he meets Spanish beauty LaCienega [Lah-cie-Ena-ga] Perez and falls head over, he knows for sure she’s what he’s always been waiting for. Except LaCienega is already engaged by the time he meets her and to none other than his childhood best friend Jace Waite who Chase hasn’t seen since high school graduation. Meanwhile, he meets Krislynn Reimer who has a strange attraction for bad boys and imperfection. She's not interested in the pretty boys who are complete jerks like he is. She wants the real bad boys, the ones with addiction problems, family problems, money problems, woman problems, any problems! It’s her favourite hobby to take them home and put a Band-Aid over their hearts and nurse them back to health. Except when they make a full recovery, they always abandon her and always in the cruellest ways. The two utterly can't stand each other so how in the world did Chase end up as Krislynn's boyfriend and how in the world did Krislynn end up as Chase's maid?