What if, just seconds after you witnessed your house turn to ash, you were kidnapped by your ex, held hostage for several weeks, and no one was looking for you because they all thought you were dead? For 22-year-old Aria, this isn't just her worst nightmare, but a reality. *** Excerpt: My heart sank into a puddle of fear at the sight of two paramedics carrying a stretcher to the back of the ambulance. On it, laid a thin, white sheet draped over a body-shaped lump. I wanted to run towards it. To make sure it wasn't what I thought it was... Who I thought it was. I tried to move, but my body was frozen. Tears blurred my vision as I stood there... Helpless. *** After watching her house burn to the ground, and witnessing her sister being thrown into the back of an ambulance, Aria is convinced things can't get much worse. That is until she is forced into a dark minivan and driven to a place she has never seen before. Now, alone and scared, she must find a way out--even if it means killing her kidnapper. However, she may not be as alone as she feels. When she discovers that a person, whom she thought was involved in her kidnapping, is willing to risk everything to break her out, she realizes that things aren't always as they seem, and maybe, just maybe she has a chance at survival. ***This is just a preview of a work-in-progress. The full story should be coming soon.

Meet Scarlet--Orphaned at birth, she has no choice but to toughen up. Fast. After 15 years of going from home to home, she finally finds her forever family. However, just as she begins to get comfortable, she is left with no choice but to run. Again. With her social worker in a coma, and a killer on the loose, she must do everything she can to stay alive, even if that means befriending the daughter of a police officer-the same police officer who was assigned her case just days before. What will happen when her feelings for the officer's daughter transform into a passion she's never felt before? Will she continue to lie about her identity, or will she come clean and confront her fears? After all, she's never been in love. Especially not with a girl as brilliant and badass as herself. With a girl who would risk everything for her, and vice versa. With the daughter of her two biggest enemies. Desperate to stay alive, Scar is stuck hiding in the shadows of the very place she used to call "home." ***This is just a preview of a work-in-progress. The full story should be coming soon.

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