Cherry blossom lipstick: check Smokey eyes: check Skinny jeans: check Dead kid in the mirror: check For sixteen year old Mattie Hathaway, this is her normal everyday routine. She's been able to see ghosts since her mother tried to murder her when she was five years old. No way does she want anyone to know she can talk to spooks. Being a foster kid is hard enough without being labeled a freak too. Normally, she just ignores the ghosts and they go away. There's a little glitch this time. The ghost she sees is her foster sister, Sally. Everyone thinks she's just another runaway. Mattie knows the truth, though-she's dead, murdered. Foster kids look out for each other and Mattie feels like she has to help Sally, but she can't do it alone. Against her better judgment, she teams up with a young police officer and together they set out to discover the truth of Sally's disappearance. Now the killer has set his sights on her. It becomes a race to see if she can find the truth before the serial killer finds her.

Six teens are devoted to a game with one rule: If a player gets tagged, they must change their life within the next fifteen minutes. The better the player, the bigger the change. One might give their car away, or punch the school bully. Another might change identities or sacrifice their virginity. Anything to keep evolving, to avoid fitting into a label or caring about the junk they own. But their quest for enlightenment has taken a rotten final turn - one of the players has murdered the game's creator, the teen prophet (cult leader?) David Bloom. Our narrator is being framed for the crime; can he clear his name and discover which of his lifelong friends is the murderer before he takes the fall? [sic] is a gritty teen murder mystery that delves into the psychology of enlightenment among the criminally dysfunctional.

The small town of Ruby Falls fell into great shock following the death of golden boy, Everett Jenson. Nothing of the sort had happened in the quiet town in many years. Everyone believed they knew the whole story behind the accident. But they don’t know the half of it. The only person who knows the truth behind his death is none other than his girlfriend, Lena McClure. As Lena goes through the motions of her final year of school, under the accusing glares of her peers, she struggles to keep it together. The last thing keeping her from breaking is a promise Everett made her weeks prior to his death. But that is slowly not becoming enough. She believes the truth behind his death is no better than the lies. Living each day without him, everyone's stares, and her secrets is becoming too much to bare. And she has no idea what to do. Cover By: XKellyAshtenX