Elise Falk is your typical housewife. She cooks, cleans, and tends to the many necessities of her home. A smile is always plastered onto her face, and to the outside world she is merely the beautiful wife of businessman David Falk. Behind closed doors, however, this seemingly perfect couple is far from flawless. Within David is a darkness that has swelled during his marriage to Elise. Almost daily, Elise is forced to deal with David's other side--a side that has repeatedly brought her pain and injury. The secret has been well kept up until now, but when a terrible incident occurs Elise is forced to explain. Tables turn quickly, as Elise becomes the suspect of her own husband's murder. Joining forces with her arrogant lawyer, Elise battles for her freedom, while coping with the many horrid events that are repeatedly thrown her way.

It’s springtime 1985. Ricardo Mendez loves clove ciggies, street fights, and Steve’s dimples. And oh, his God-crazy aunt damns him with sermons and tamarind candy. His neighborhood lights abuzz with tales of him and Steve k-i-s-s-i-n-g. But before Ricardo has a chance to explain to his family, rumors and circumstances blow out of control. In response, his parents kicks him out of his house. Alone and afraid, Ricardo has to navigate hoodlums, night stalkers, his God-crazy aunt. He may have to shed his prejudices to survive. But he may just lose his heart or life before he can find his way back home again.

Chelsea Parker was an average sixteen year old. She had everything going her way until one day her life began to spiral out of control. After her parents separating and an incident involving the police, Chelsea's Mum decides to send her away to Crawford Boarding School for more than one reason. However the school is having problems and its up to its students to work together to save their home. Will Chelsea ever find happiness in her new home, can she ever regain her mother's trust, and will the students be able to save Crawford?! There's only one way to find out...

I didn’t ever think I’d live in Florida. It surprised me when Travis had wanted to go and live in a place with such bipolar weather. But really, I couldn’t stop him. I could only watch him go. I also didn’t ever think that he would come to visit me and make my day. But he did, but that doesn’t mean my day didn’t crash and burn. Maddie Ryder had a life… a nice one. Her loving parents, and a best friend that loved her. A good education and a happy life that anyone would want to trade their own for. But the day that Travis comes back to Virginia, Maddie’s parents die in a car accident.Having nowhere to go, Travis invites her to go to Florida with him, to boarding school. Will she let her home go, and will she begin again?

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain." - Bob Marley Life for Lacey Carson hasn't been a straight road into paradise. Struggling with the death of her mother, her abusive step-father, and love for music and freedom, she's torn about who she really is, and who she's become. Growing up with a natural talent for drumming, rhythms, and beats; Lacey and her faithful drum sticks can't ever be divided. So when a national competition for a battle of the bands is announced; the reward for the winning band being a grand prize of a million dollars, a ticket to the number one recording studio in England, and being signed into one of the hottest record labels in the world, Lacey knew that it was fate. All she needed was a band to play with... But indifferent, apathetic, and cold to the rest of the world, will she be able to find a group who she could trust and befriend? Fall in love with a not-so-mysterious stranger who may or may not have feelings for her too? Discover her own true self tangled in between a web of lies? Or is it all simply just a decoy?

Elena Amell had been part of the Circle of Magi since she was ripped away from her family at the age of six. Now, after fourteen years of vigiourus study, she is becoming a promising mage with the help of her friend Jowan. Elena knows her place in the tower-mostly because if she didn't she'd be cruely punished by the ever present templars-but there was still a part of her that wanted to travel. Annria Mahariel is an elven apprentice who was dragged to the circle after she witnessed the brutal murder of her mother and killed a great number of men in the Arl of Denirum's estate five years ago at the age of fifteen, and ever since, she had trouble trusting humans. Even so, Annria had always found it interesting how Elena-First Enchanter Irving's star pupil-could be so friendly towards her when it's already obvious she is aware of what she had done. This is the story of two girls who must save their country from the dreaded Blight. One will become a famed Grey Warden and one will follow close behind as the two fight against the Blight, an impending civil war, and not to mention the archdemon before Fereldan falls.

School shooting. October 16th. Redwood High School. Aston Bay, California. Junior year. What do you do . . . when you're girlfriend of two years is killed? And what do you do . . . when your brother's the shooter? Jonah Montgomery's been trying to decide this since it happened a year ago. He still doesn't know. He deserted his friends and most of his family and doesn't talk to anyone unless it's to tell them off. He's completely shut everyone out. Jonah's never been the same since that dreadful day before English. Lina Clark knows about the shooting, but doesn't know the details. She sees Jonah eating alone at lunch and, despite her new friends' advice, goes to sit with him. Jonah immediately tries to get her to leave him alone, but Lina's stubborn, much to Jonah's dislike. Soon enough, Jonah finds himself opening up to Lina and wanting her around more often, though he doesn't know why. Watch as Jonah finds himself again and maybe even the love he'd thought he lost forever.

Cole Braden never used to be this way. Once upon a time, he was your everyday misfit that skipped class and got into a few fights here and there. But that was over a year ago, and everything has changed. One year ago, on October 23, 2012, at 10:26 p.m., Cole Braden was arrested for a heinous crime. Trials lasted months, but eventually, Cole Braden, then seventeen, was finally released. It wasn't long before he disappeared from everyone in Clearwater, Florida's peacefully little lives. The crimes continued. Now, over a year since that fateful night in October, Cole Braden is finally starting over. He's been enrolled in a new school with people whom he's never met. But that doesn't mean that they don't know him. Despite all that's happened, it seems everyone in Clearwater believes that Cole Braden is guilty. Except, maybe one. But, can Cole trust her? Will he ever be able to let her into his dark, bitter world?