Dalawang lalaki ang pinasok ang bahay ng pamilya nina Charlene. Brutal na pinatay at pinagnakawan ang pamilya niya. Isinumpa ni Charlene sa bangkay ng kanyang ama na ipaghihiganti niya ang kanyang pamilya subalit isang kahindik-hindik na katotohanan ang bumulaga sa harapan ni Charlene. Kung ano ito ay si Charlene lamang ang makakaalam.

Everyone dies, someday and somehow. Sixteen year old Allie is dying of cancer. More than anything, she wants to be a normal teenager. But pretending is exhausting and the lies pile up. With a chance at first love and true friends, Allie must choose between maintaining the pretence or risking everything with the truth. Can Allie open her heart and embrace love? If you liked 'The Fault in Our Stars' by John Green or 'A Walk to Remember' by Nicholas Sparks, you'll love Awakening to Life.

It was pity that first made Dannie speak to him. She had known Ryan since she was a kid, but he had always been the popular Golden Boy, and she had always been the tomboy that didn’t mind not having any friends. It was odd, she had thought, that all the popular kids who had once kissed the ground he walked on, didn’t so much spared him a glance anymore, and it was this that made her sit with him that one faithful day and begin something that would only end up causing her pain.