Meet Riley Evans, a sixteen year-old journalism nerd. She loves nothing more than her notebook and her third period journalism class, which she completely lost her social life to long ago. Riley has practically shut everyone out of her life, with the exception of her two best friends who, go figure, she met in journalism. That is, until Aaron Ross moves in next door. And into Riley's "safe haven" of a journalism class. Even better, she's stuck working on a column for the newspaper with him. Aaron ends up turning Riley's entire life upside-down, inside-out, and maybe even right-side up, whether she likes it or not.

"Rose, I'm sorry, but your eyesight will be gone by the end of this year." Who knew one simple sentence could change a life so drastically? Rose is a normal seventeen year old girl with a normal life, normal friends, and what she thought to be normal vision. When she receives the news her vision is slowly deteriorating, she doesn't know what to think. Her life is over. What's a life without being able to see? Enter Chace, a young man who tackled Rose to the ground, mistakingly thinking she was about to commit suicide. He's handsome, suave, and has no idea why Rose is so upset. And even though she is a complete stranger, he decides he wants to help her feel better. With four months until her vision is gone forever, Rose slowly falls in love with this happy-go-lucky young man, but never reveals her problem to him. She's scared. Will he stay with her when he finds out she's going blind? Or will he ditch her when he finds out the truth?

Amy is a focused student and just wants to enjoy a care free senior year. Her family is fiercely over protective and she accepted years ago that boys just wasn't worth all the trouble. She would find her mate someday but until then she would just live happily independent. That is until new student, Steven arrives on the first day of school. Fireworks immediately sparked between the two, how hard and long will they both fight the burning attraction?

Isabel Marant is childhood best friends with Aaron Fox. He just happens to be the hottest movie star since Brad Pitt and Hollywood's new Golden Boy. Now after eight months filming abroad he's back and Isabel's life is about to get a whole lot more complicated....

Carla is a simple waitress trying to get enough money to make it through college. She has big dreams though. She wants to be an actress, she always has, and finally her chance comes when a strange man comes to the restaurant she works at and gives her a strange proposition: be Jason Bradley, one of the most famous men in America's girlfriend for six months. In return she'll get her dream of becoming an actress, but she ends up getting more than she bargained for.

Marcus and Diana had known they loved each other at a very young age. But when her family takes her away from him for her safety, they stay in touch wanting to never be separated for an instant. For three long years they managed just fine with the occassional visit. But their struggle has just begone when the world believes she and her family died. His heart froze with the news and only knew a world bitter and cold around him. She was his light and sun. She made his heart burn with happiness. Now the world has turned to ice for him. But is she really dead or just lost, alone, and scared? Years pass and Marcus has turned into a man, but one with a heart of ice. One of only two friends of his felt he needed a companion. How could a woman help the hard and unpleasing god like man as Marcus? Only one that is haloed like Mare. Can she tame the brute even if she doesn't know her own past? Only time and their time together can know the outcome. ~~Inspired by World So Cold by Three Days Grace~~~ *WARNING* Contains sexual content as well as a rape scene. To those who wish not to read, than I suggest you turn away when Marcus leaves and return the following chapter.

It's Hope's final year in Starr Academy. What does this year bring the newly single magical girl? If the first day of school would tell, her past will come back to bite her in the rear and without her counterpart there to help her. This year, the school has been turned upside down with the addition of several students from a sister school. But those students don't just come over, several from Starr take their place. Marek being one of the few who agreed to go. He decided to give Hope a peaceful school year without seeing him everywhere. Peaceful wouldn't be what Hope would call her last year. Not with the dark shadow that haunts her even in those enchanted halls. Can she figure out how to defeat the darkness that seems so real and familiar but different in a way. Her life will depend on it yet again...

The first year of Hope Lund's time at Starr Academy is over. Now she has to deal with her family for the summer and then the start of her second year. Things seem to be perfect for her. She has the greatest boyfriend in the world. Friends that seem to be there with her. Nothing could go wrong. But as the year goes on, her perfect world starts to crumble. And everyone sees it. And it all centers around Marek. Marek Knightly doesn't see the damage till it's almost too late to save Hope. The ramifications for the potion Cedric had forced her to drink come to life this year. But what could make Hope's life be put on the line? Follow her through her second year and find out how love could kill her.

The Starr Academy is one of the most premier and exclusive school in the United States of America. So exclusive that they turned down Paris Hilton when she tried to demand her acceptance. This school wasn't just for any student. The student must be special for this unique school's different course load. This school isn't just for the wealthy. There is a scholarship program for these who have the something special so they may learn too. The school board doesn't care about a person's family status. They care about the skill of the student attending their school. This school has a rich history and a long past. Started by four of the most prestigious of families on Maryland, this school has stood the march of time and have always been strong. Any student that passes through these halls have come out to be one of the elite in the world. The Starr Academy was the first of nine elite schools all together. This school would the the start of the Mystique Schools. And all of this could be traced to one man. Melerick Lund, the first headmaster of Starr Academy. The head founder of the Starr Academy and beloved headmaster during his reign of the school. ~~~ After Nearly fifty years of the absence of a Lund among the student body, Hope Lund is brought to the school by Marek Knightly. She had no idea that she would be attending Starr Academy until he shows up on her door step. And she is grateful for being away from her family. Want to know why? It's all within this tale. Enjoy...

*WARNING: Written in 2008, some content may be offensive* Stasee is your typical shy, quiet teenage girl until the night her brother's best friend Damen Hurtz decides to finally acknowledge her existence. In a desperate attempt to gain his acceptance she allows him to take the one thing every girl values most...her virginity. After that night, Damen constantly begins accepting her while they're alone and then rejecting her in front of his peers. Stasee's frustration and confusion continues to grow, as do her feeling toward the man who continues to break her heart. He claims that he cares for her, but will his need for his peer's acceptance prevent him from ever treating Stasee the way he should? And if he finally realizes the stupidity of popularity over love, will Stasee still be waiting for him?