His name is Desmond Pierce. He's your cliché billionaire playboy who flaunts his wealth, enjoys a good party, and indulges in only the best of drinks. But ever since the life-changing deaths of his parents, the brash billionaire has had to cope with everyday panic attacks and stress. He drives everyone closest to him away, and he locks himself atop his multi-billion dollar fortress: Platinum Tower. However, when the evil terrorist organization known as the Black Dragon kidnaps him and destroys his home, it's up to him to pull his act together. He and fellow captive Olivia Jones must fight for their lives, even after surviving brutal experimentation and torture. Not only must Pierce kill to survive, but he must also find reconciliation with his traumatic past...and his own failures. This is the first story in a continuing series called: The Age of Heroes

Imagine the second you're born, a consultant removes you from your mother's grasp and runs a battery of genetic and physiological tests on you. Thirty minutes later they give you a score out of one hundred which denotes your level of perfection. If your score is above eighty and you work hard to maintain that score you will have a charmed life; well fed, well-rewarded, spoiled. But fall below eighty and you're labelled Flawed, and life will not be so kind. Hannah is adopted by a Flawed family when her birth parents choose their social standing over their daughter and endures a life of struggle, hunger and service. One day Hannah is escorted to the regional government office and told that the Consultant who delivered her, who labelled her Flawed got it wrong! Now, she is being relocated back to her birth parents, to live as one of the Ninety-Five- all medically and legally judged as perfect. Entering this new life Hannah has an impossible decision to make which puts not only hers, but the lives of everyone she cares about at great risk. "The Numbered- where no one wants to be number one". Authors notes: -This is a first draft of my story and will be edited soon. -2013 Began writing Flawed -2015 Watty Winner/ Named changed to The Numbered -2016 Completed The Numbered -2019 Optioned by eOne for development into a TV show.