As the only daughter to one of the most powerful Mafia families, Shay has sought to figure out her own path despite the overbearing pressures from her Family. After a family dispute leads to Shay and her mother to go into hiding, Shay attends Elite academy--her own perfect Hell. With an incredibly awful (or ingenious) disguise, Shay's new identity is going well until Jacob Smith shows out of nowhere. Not only does he seem to know every right button to push, but he also seems to know everything about her. Shay's seemingly normal school life explodes with a new set of problems. Old and new enemies are coming for her and she needs to choose whether she will carry the Ricca name. Goodbye Nerd Disguise, hello old identity, old life, old friends, and new enemies. It's the Family business, where plotting someone's assassination is just part of the daily duty. (Unedited first draft) FYI title may be misleading at first.

Winner of Most Popular in the Action category in the 2012 Watty Awards. Most Read in 2013. Valerie is Water-Abled. At the age of sixteen she was able to manipulate and freeze water molecules. After she graduates high school she's shocked to find that she was accepted to a university she never applied for - Abled University, at the request of her deceased parents. Valerie soon falls into the Abled community but what should she do when she learns dark secrets that were kept from both her and the entire Abled society?

Ever since she was a child she loved the rain. The rain loved her even more. winds would send her a strong smell of welcome and the first drops of rain would knock her door, urging her to come out. Tiny drops of rain loved running down her rose red cheeks. the winds would carry to her the most beautiful of flowers for she was the most beautiful phenomenon they had ever seen in the billion years they blew; she would smile and put in in her hair. the grass didn't mind being stepped on by her for every time she moved her toes would set a soulful symphony below. and for her shoes.... those poor souls/soles tore everytime she danced in the rain. she loved sticking her tongue out to taste the rain,for every time she did it reminded her of home.