They live in a dark world. A world where light is rare when the sun sets. A world of blood, dirt, executions and vermin roaming the streets. It is 1644 Edinburgh, Scotland and the plague has attacked the residence of Mary Kings Close. Locked up in their homes and left to due by the city officials, can the people survive? Or will the plague prove to be too strong? WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES.

| SAMPLE ONLY; READ IT NOW ON GALATEA | ❝He's the boy she left behind. She's the girl he let go.❞ ➵ Before she became one of music's biggest up-and-coming artists, Evelyn "Evie" Chase was a nobody at the bottom of the Roosevelt High School food chain with only a handful of friends. Her best friend (and longtime crush)--popular jock, Adam Fields--was her polar opposite, but despite their differences, their bond was as strong as they come. That is, until one day-- one mistake--changed the course of their friendship forever, and the once inseparable duo never spoke again. Fast forward three years, and everything's changed. Evie has the world at her feet, now out in L.A. living her dream as a seventeen-year-old popstar-- leaving the town, the boy who broke her heart, and those who'd made high school unbearable behind. Meanwhile, Adam--at Roosevelt finishing off senior year and still the school (and town's) beloved "golden boy"--is trying his hardest to let go of the past and the girl he let get away. And it's going well, the two of them living their separate lives. Until Evie's back. Suddenly, seventeen and senior year just got a lot more interesting.

You can sell drugs, you can sell secrets, you can even sell your soul. If they are willing to buy it, are you willing to sell it? The answer is usually yes, at least for Jesse. He's bad. He'll take pieces of her to complete himself. She's horrible, for different reasons. They are a storm together that no one can stop. Their relationship can only end badly. Jesse is nightmare wrapped up in a pretty package. He is no good but she already knows it. He's bad for her but she's even worse for him. He uses any excuse to break each and any law at any given moment. Dealing with his own tragedies, he finds the perfect partner to create chaos with and heal himself. Even if she pays for it in the end.

For two years, Kaia has lived in silence. All she wants is for someone to come along and understand the thoughts she desperately tries to express without words. When Jacoby transfers to her school, she finds it's more than his name that's odd. He seems perfectly in tune with her emotions and feelings, without needing her words to understand them. But soon she finds that he's too in tune. And that he may be hiding a secret even a mute girl would have trouble keeping to herself...

Giselle isn't your average teenage girl. Besides the fact that she's hot headed and argumentative she also can control fire. When she's captured and taken to a special school by the name of Gifted Academy, Giselle Riley doesn't know what to expect. All she knows is that the last thing she wants is to be among people with special gifts such as speed, earth bending and telepathy. That is until the moment she realizes shes one of them. Through challenging struggles and suspense Giselle tries to figure out who she really is and who shes destined to be. Through falling in love, making new friends and destroying dark forces will Giselle finally find out who she really is or is there something more shes been needing to find out all along?