Barrels and Clarks. Two elite families in Edinburgh. Everything seemed to be going well until the families fell into the hands of crime. The avarice for power, fame, and wealth turned everyone into monsters, which can go to any extent to wield them. Rich miscreants, mafias, goon squads, cops, a genocidal army, and their accomplices created mayhem in the capital through murders, lust, injustice, rabble, and pulling off a million-dollar heist in Edinburgh. It's once said, "You can't run away from destiny. It's pain that makes the legacy." In this rat race, can anyone be worthy enough to conquer all and create a legacy? Note: Our social workers' insensitivity in the book is fictitious. We ask you to refrain from taking it too literally. I hope you all like my book, and don't forget to let me know when you're addicted to it. Happy reading.! For Harish.

(STORY ISNT MINE )Influenced by philosophers such as Søren Kierkegaard, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Friedrich Nietzsche, Camus introduces his philosophy of the absurd. The absurd lies in the juxtaposition between the fundamental human need to attribute meaning to life and the "unreasonable silence" of the universe in response.[1] Camus claims that the realization of the absurd does not justify suicide, and instead requires "revolt". He then outlines several approaches to the absurd life. In the final chapter, Camus compares the absurdity of man's life with the situation of Sisyphus, a figure of Greek mythology who was condemned to repeat forever the same meaningless task of pushing a boulder up a mountain, only to see it roll down again just as it nears the top. The essay concludes, "The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy." The work can be seen in relation to other absurdist works by Camus: the novel The Stranger (1942), the plays The Misunderstanding (1942) and Caligula (1944), and especially the essay The Rebel (1951).

They say bad choices make good stories, will this be a good story? Nefeli Leion a high-school student, what happens when she finally gets a chance to date her long-time crush, she is excited to see how her relationship will go, but she's got a problem one of her friends dislikes her current relationship, what will happen now? Nyla Hallberg a friend of Nefeli, hates her (nefeli) relationship with a boy she has known all too well, as Nyla tries to warn her, what happens when half of the group sides with nefeli and the other half with her? Maybe Nefeli will persuade Nyla and get her to agree or will Nyla be correct about her boyfriend??

I will admit, my dear readers, that this is a story you have read before. But in many ways, a story I know, you will not see coming. A simple tale of love and loss, pride and vanity. Although, with a twist. A twist that came in the form of a tall gentleman on a light autumn morning in London, 1804. A new type of vampire changes the game as noble society is now nocturnal. It is now proper for women of age to court a vampiric noble and rise to the ranks of the ageless, all while avoiding the travelers (Crazy vampires) who hunt in their midst. Not all is what it seems my dear readers and not all......will make it out......................................ALIVE. *Their is a narrator to the book that will be revealed in the last chapter. If someone can guess before then, I will give them a sneak peak into my next novel, (hint its not going to be accessible to the public) Happy hunting and read like you mean it. You never know what you might find* *Implied violence- Pg-13 - but nothing overly graphic and should be fine for all ages- If anyone thinks otherwise please tell me!!!!*

For IB students who don't have the book The Metamorphosis by Frank Kafka

Notes from Underground, also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld, is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man) who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. The first part of the story is told in monologue form, or the underground man's diary, and attacks emerging Western philosophy, especially Nikolay Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done? The second part of the book is called "Apropos of the Wet Snow" and describes certain events that appear to be destroying and sometimes renewing the underground man, who acts as a first person, unreliable narrator and anti-hero