After a team of scientists suddenly disappear while searching in space for a 'super massive object', another team is sent to search for evidence as to what happened. But the when the team's ship starts to get pulled by an unknown force towards an unknown object, things start to go awry. They wake up on the ground of what they believe to be Earth, but what they don't know is that they were pulled through a black hole, and on the other side lay a parallel universe...and whats on this parallel universe, this second Earth? Millions and millions of humans with their mouths stitched shut, humans who are silent.

In the fall of 2010, sixteen teenagers suddenly vanished without a trace from a small suburban town in the Midwest. Each one was sixteen years old. There were no witnesses, no ransom notes, no clues whatsoever as to what happened to them. The community was devastated and the police were baffled until they all suddenly reappeared, sixteen weeks later with extraordinary new powers and no memory of where they had been or what was coming next. ** PLEASE NOTE - this is a rough draft of a future full length novel - it is ON HOLD right now

While trying to get through high school, Carson has always noticed the same routine with Jesse - the school's 'player', as some like to say. He would leave countless girls crying, and he'd find someone else soon after. But when that someone else is Carson herself, she promises that she won't be the one crying when it's all over. [previously titled: Mr. Player, You've Just Been Played]