It's your sixteenth birthday and when your mother, Princess (mother's name) and Grandmother, the Queen host a ball in your honor something goes terribly wrong. You are then immediately taken to the Phantomhive Manor for protection. Except you being who you are being under the protection of a demon and his master does not sit well with you. What kind of trouble will you get into? Who is trying to possibly kidnap or kill you and why?

Taylor is a simple girl and a people pleaser. So simple that she doesn't even say anything when her mother gets engaged to a guy she's known for a year and decides to move to Wisconsin. Wisconsin. With a whole new family waiting for her on new territory, Taylor is trying to find some purpose in her life and discovers some secret along the way.

They were not meant to be together. But when James Halter and young, vulnerable Allison Rousseau meet one night, on a balcony underneath a starlit sky, that's exactly what happens. Completely unaware of the trap they're falling into, Allison and James spend the night together - and it only gets worse when he turns up as her high school art teacher the following week. Secret Torture is the story of the dark, troubled relationship between two people who simply should never have met.

/abˈdəkt/ verb 1.take (someone) away illegally by force or deception; kidnap. © ImVictoriaOkay / 2015