Dear Charlotte, You have been chosen to join the League of Strays. A secret meeting will be held at Stafford Pond, fourth picnic table on the right at 10:00, Wednesday night. Come alone. Make sure nobody follows you, or you won’t hear from us again. —K.

Sometime in the near future, an immortality serum is developed. Overpopulation is a major problem, and most of the worlds governments are using the new immortality serum as a cure, due to it's sterilization of its user. Chosen in secret worldwide are girls and boys with important qualities and high aptitudes who are being given the drug, including Rhiannon Archer, a high school student in California. She goes to school everyday knowing that she will live forever (as long as she can make it to 25 years old) and will never grow old with the people around her. Most teenagers believe they are immortal. The members of the Arcadia Project really are, as mankind's next and last step in human evolution.

13 years old. Lonely. Abused. Terrified. Little Madison has never known what it feels like to have someone love her. Abused by her 'family' she has learned to shut people out, never trust, seeing as though everything is a trick to hurt her. Sexually, mentaly, and phyically she has been taken advantage of by the people who should love her most. She has spent one tortuitous year in and out of the orphange, wishing her father had killed her when he had the many chances. She suddenly finds her selve in care of five loud, crazy, boys. What happens when this scared little girl meets the boys from One Direction and they try to save her? Will pain hit her again? Is her father really gone? Will she ever be safe? Read and find out...