Riley Daniels isn't your normal girl but no one remember the normal girls that blend into the background. For starters her two best-friends are her twin brother Thomas and their friend Luke. The second thing about Riley is that she plays football and is a receiver. Also she doesn't have parents and lives with Thomas and Luke. When you are the first female footballer your school has since you don't have a lot of friends. For starters the Coach hates her and so does the cheerleaders but they have since she started school. Riley acts like a cheerful person but truthfully she is building up wall to push everyone way because she knows things that she hasn't ever told anyone else. What doesn't help is the fact that suddenly her world is threaten and everything and everyone that she once trusted isn't there anymore.

Violet Knight has a very bad past with violence, abuse, blood, and most of all... DEATH. She has had the worst childhood you could ever have. She has scars to prove it. Violet's past has made her an emotionless, killing machine. She can kill you without a second glance. She decided to move away from her harmful past in Orlando, Florida to LA, California. She's mysterious, scarred, and dangerous. She's the new girl. Jordan Smith has a rough past, but not as rough as Violet. His parents never pay attention to him. He is the leader of the most dangerous gang in Cali with his friends Caleb Monroe, Dylan Farfield, Kane Forest, George Dean, and Kyle McKnight. They are bad, sarcastic, and dangerous, but they can't compete with Violet. They are the bad boys of California Highschool.

Aura Price just got released from juvie. Why? She murdered her parents, that's why. She got arrested at the age of 7, now she's 18. Yeah, 11 years of Julie, but nobody messed with her. She was the most feared person in juvie, but she is mute. Her eyes were always cold, hard, and emotionless, that's why she never takes her shades off. Nobody knows her real name in juvie, but outside if juvie was a totally different story. Outside of juvie, everyone feared the name Aura Price. She doesn't let people in, not that anyone would want to be let in. What will happen when The Mute Badass meats The Bad Boys of Ice Bridge Highschool?

Luna Lake is a rebellious teenager. Her brother is a police officer, and she's constantly sheltered and cooped up, hidden from the world. At least, that's what her family thinks. Her rebellious streak shows often when her family isn't around. Mainly, on the streets. Yeah, that's right. Luna is a street racer. And a pretty dang good one, too. And that's how she meets the mysterious Aaron Walker. She smokes him on the track. But, the charming boy shows a particular interest in her, and she begins to wrestle with her feelings for him, while trying to escape the dangers of racing and keep her secret from her parents.

As a child there's just you, your parents and your friends. Unfortunately, it wasn't the case for the little orphan Astrid. After years of dreaming for the perfect parents for her and her twin brother, she spent a short time in paradise with her adopted parents until she was taken to Russia to be trained as the best assassin in the world. Much to her captor's disappointment, even the best assassin has to go home sometimes.

In life, we do things we regret, or that we wish we could wipe from our memory forever. At the age of 15, I didn't think I'd regret anything until I was an adult. I considered myself care free. I lived life one day at a time. Well, as much as a 15 year old can. But in life, there are also things that we can't change, that we can't forget. Circumstances change, events occur, and life as we know it is altered forever. For me, it was one night, that set in motion a series of events that I wouldn't be able to forget, even if I tried to. *************************** My life was spectacular, or cool, but I was content, and that's all that mattered. I wasn't overly popular, I wasn't the prettiest girl, and I didn't live in a mansion. I did have a great boyfriend, and amazing friends, and hell, I wasn't doing too bad in school either. But that all changed one night, as I was walking home at night. I witnessed a man murder someone he claimed was a snitch, something to do with a gang deal gone wrong. When I found my parents dead the next day in a serial killers wet dream, my naive self decided the best thing I could do, was run, giving up everything I loved. After 2 years, 3 dead members of the gang and a new school, I was found. When secrets are unraveled and with the FBI somehow involved, nothing is as it ever seemed.

Jia had never expected to return to California, to move from a quiet English town to the buzzing Beverly Hills, where money and beauty is all that matters, where partying on the beach till 3 in the morning is normal. More than anything, she was not expecting to find her best friend, still living in the same town, still acting the same, just Gabriel. But, Jia has a secret. No-one knows the real reason why she moved back to Beverly Hills, that her boyfriend got too serious, that it got to a point where he would threaten her to such an extent that Jia couldn't leave the house. She was all over the news, everyone knew who she was, which was why she had to move back to Beverly Hills, where no one would look further than money, and beauty.

Hayley Davidson was taken away from her father by her mother when she was five years old. He promised she would see him again, but she never did. Five years after that, she witnessed a horrible act committed by someone she trusted. Someone who promised to take care of her. At seventeen, she finds it hard to trust anyone anymore, which makes it hard for her to have a relationship. That is, until Damon Smith shows up. Damon is the average good looking, arrogant jerk who knows he can have any girl he wants and finds it annoying. But when Hayley doesn't budge, he finds himself falling for her. As he grows closer, Hayley finds herself falling for him too. But will she be able to push aside her past and trust him? And she realizes that he's keeping a secret himself. Can she figure out what it is?

Faith Mitchell was never confident. She was happy to blend into the background, much to the protest of her friends. At 16, her life was a normal teenage cliche. She was in love with Jace, the obnoxious player who she couldn't have, and her biggest worry was whether or not he would finally come to his senses and see that she really was the one for him. That is until she is kidnapped and recruited by a secret agency of assassins. She is torn away from her normal teenage life and thrown into a world of guns, knifes and criminals. The agency mold her into the perfect killing machine, and at 19 she is no longer the shy girl that was snatched away from her uncomplicated life, but a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing to complete whatever mission she is on. Then, the agency has a new mission which involves Faith returning to her hometown, and facing her friends, family and the very boy who broke her heart just before it turned into stone. What will happen once Faith comes face to face with Jace? Will the obnoxious player be able to reach out and get the old Faith back without pressing any of her wrong buttons, considering that the shy girl he once knew now has a gun. (WATTY AWARDS 2011) (THE FICTION AWARDS 2017) ©makeandoffer