Seventeen-year-old April Parker wakes up in an underground facility, a shock bracelet on her wrist and a five-day countdown on the clock. Dozens of other teens share her inexplicable fate, but their unseen captors never intervene no matter how brutal conditions become. When the ruthless - and unnervingly magnetic - Marcus seizes control, April's trauma-forged instinct is to lay low. But protecting her friends drives her to bargain with the boy she should fear most - a boy whose reality fractures with every tick. Then the countdown ends, and the real terror begins. Powers ignite. Alliances shatter. And predators are born. And with a saboteur among them determined to keep the doors closed forever, escaping what comes next may be the only way to survive it.

Their eyes had met from across the crowded room, music blaring in the background. Sparks flew, passion flared and it took one single night in the heat of the moment to wreck 17 year old Rachel Warner's life. She's pregnant with Jason Reinhardt's child, the school's imfamous bad boy but what if the rumors weren't completely true? What if Jason wasn't completely bad? And what happens when she wants to keep her baby? Jason Reinhardt hates his family, who had ruined his mother's health due to their cruelty just because his mother had been the maid of the Reinhardt family before his wealthy father married her. Once his mother died, Jason left to live on his own, forsaking his inheritence and vowing to never ask for his fathers help for anything but then Rachel and their baby suddenly steps into the picture. He remembers their wreckless night of passion and by the innocence he's seen in Rachel's eyes, he knows he's the father. Her warm presence, her laughter and stubbornness touches a place in his heart that he didn't even realize he had. And she's given him something he's always wanted. A family. But will their new found "family" survive the trails of life? Will their bond break or grow stronger? Only time will tell. And what does their fathers have to say about all this? -- There are also side stories of Rachel's friends Nancy and Dana. Tough girl Nancy Griffin is trying to fend off charming British hunk Gerard Hemmingway's advances...will she risk giving her heart out to him? And Dana is having a "forbidden" relationship that even her 2 best friends don't know about...how will their reactions be when they do find out?

Delinquent, Reject, Prodigy. Orphaned Rosemary Adams manages to find a family only to be tossed aside when she's wrongly accused of vandalism. She's sent to a boarding school for delinquent kids where her natural abilities for the piano are discovered and for the next few years, her only focus is music. But when her agent dies in a car accident, Rose vows to never touch a piano again. Now, on her own and enrolled in a public school, can she keep her vow? Will the thrill of rock music make her change her mind? Or will Mac Parker, lead singer in a rock band scare her away? This story is a spin off of Playing Evelyn.

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