When Ryan Harrison gets caught driving under the influence of his favorite alcoholic beverage, he's utterly shocked learning his punishment is 50 hours of community service. He's even more bewildered when his punishment ends up being to help clean up a run down orphanage. While serving his punishment, he meets a little blue-eyed girl named Katie. Her eyes had been turned to stone, sponged of all innocence. How could someone so little and sweet be so shut off and broken? When he begins to learn about her dark past, his whole world will change. cover: DestroyThePretender

Emily Marabella is an orphan. She lives with her abusive cousin, aunt and uncle at the Marabella Farm. She knows that her fate is to live out her days being their 'stable hand'. She will be stuck as their slave forever if she doesn't find a way out of the farm. But she wouldn't have anywhere else to go. That is, until she met Scott...