There is only one rule in this world. The strong flourish and the weak perish. Follow three mercenaries in a fictional setting very much like the Roman Empire, as they fight for what they value and change the fate of their world. Only a thin line divides friend from foe.

Shay Woods hates being ugly. Her only wish is to be like her sister, Avery- Perfect. But once she is, she's haunted by the cause of her new found lifestyle. Now, Shay realizes the only thing harder than being ugly is being unblemished.

Aurelia James is a strange girl. Just a few years ago, she was partying with the best of them, carefree, happy and at the top of the social ladder. And then the summer of her seventeenth year came, and nothing was the same. Back at school, the old Auri was gone, replaced by a gloomy, Goth version of her; one that had no friends, was at the bottom of social scene and was afraid of the dark. But as you delve deeper and deeper into the terrors that reside around Aurelia James, you'll begin to realize that maybe she's not that strange after all. Maybe... just maybe, she has a right to be afraid of the dark... (~~~~Not the FULL story. Chapters taken down.~~~)

Natalie Abernathy was born into a world where the lines on your skin tell everyone who you are. They appear like tattoos and change with every choice you make, every person you meet. Only one line remains constant. Your love line. The only colored line on the human's skin, a blood red mixed in with the black. Natalie's world is consumed with The Sickness, the next stage in human evolution that can strike you when you are fourteen. Or doesn't. If you survive The Sickness, you become one of the Elite, faster, stronger, smarter than the humans who don't get The Sickness. The Elite's lines are colorful, beautiful in their own way. A mixture of deepest purples, the darkest blues, and dominate greens. They cover the black lines the Elite were given at birth, rewriting their destinies forever. As Natalie comes to find, the Elite aren't what they seem. The Sickness is not what it seems. Her heart is broken by the loss of her best friend Cecil McCourt, who succumbed to The Sickness days before their shared fifteenth birthday. Her friends surround her, trying to fill the void left by Cecil. Time moved on, carrying Natalie along with it. Now it's three years later, everyone's senior year. Days before school starts, Natalie befriends the new boy in town, Union Davidson. Cecil (now known as Cyrus) is quick to warn her away from him. At first she thinks it's a trick but as things start to happen, Natalie finds herself trapped between the thing she wants most in the world and something else quite darker than she imagined. © SCCourtney ~ * ~ Finalist in the Watty's 2012

There’s something different about Cass. Everyone in her hometown knew about it because they were like her too. She's a witch of the South, truth teller, and Daughter of the Earth. And she sees ghosts, not her favorite past time. After her mother's murder, Cassandra South is whisked away to a new school, new town by the father she's never met before. She hopes to just blend in and survive high school so she could go back to her hometown in Ireland after she graduates. However, after meeting Peter Marks, who just happens to be the other live-in student’s brother, she starts to change her mind about leaving and about life. But Peter has his secrets, just like her. The only difference is he can read all of hers. Over the course of seeing a new ghost, the school being broken into, and a few other dangerous adventures, will Cass learn to trust others with her secrets, her life, and her heart? Official Song: Set Fire To The Third Bar by Snow Patrol (c)2011 SCCourtney ~ * ~ Book One of The Banish Me Saga

Isabelle Glisten was you're average sixteen year old geek. She lives with her windowed mother and annoying older sister. The only strong relationships she has is with Isaac and Caroline, her two best friends. Isabelle considers her life boring and stereotypical. She would kill just for something in her innocent, boring life to change. This is where the 'popular's" step into Isabelle's life. Brooke, Mallory and Naomi claim they see 'potential' in Isabelle and want to help her bloom. She agrees and finds herself joining their Sister Hood. She discovers an old family secret and an old family ability. Now Isabelle is caught in lies, betrayal and something...evil? It won't be long until she loses herself and sells her soul, but for what? Be careful what you wish for.

Connery Bravet has been fighting the machines for years. Suddenly, however, he went insane. Now they're trying to find out just what brought him to his insanity, but could this investigation lead to the fall of mankind? Or will it just bolster it into a new era of discovery?

Abigail Archer lived a non-existent life. That is until Death arrived at her door with an interesting proposition... He asks her to live. But what will Abigail do when she realizes her only reason to live is Death itself? And what will Death do when he realizes that in Abigail, he has found life?

I wasn't always this way. That's a lie, but isn't that how you start talking with a psychologist? When I was 10 years old, everything changed. My mother became a terrifying figure, My step father tormented me. When I was 14, I tried to kill myself. That's when everything really went to shit. That's when I found out about genetic disorders, depression is in fact a disease. That's when I learned lifes greatest lessons. I learned to love,