Natalie Abernathy was born into a world where the lines on your skin tell everyone who you are. They appear like tattoos and change with every choice you make, every person you meet. Only one line remains constant. Your love line. The only colored line on the human's skin, a blood red mixed in with the black. Natalie's world is consumed with The Sickness, the next stage in human evolution that can strike you when you are fourteen. Or doesn't. If you survive The Sickness, you become one of the Elite, faster, stronger, smarter than the humans who don't get The Sickness. The Elite's lines are colorful, beautiful in their own way. A mixture of deepest purples, the darkest blues, and dominate greens. They cover the black lines the Elite were given at birth, rewriting their destinies forever. As Natalie comes to find, the Elite aren't what they seem. The Sickness is not what it seems. Her heart is broken by the loss of her best friend Cecil McCourt, who succumbed to The Sickness days before their shared fifteenth birthday. Her friends surround her, trying to fill the void left by Cecil. Time moved on, carrying Natalie along with it. Now it's three years later, everyone's senior year. Days before school starts, Natalie befriends the new boy in town, Union Davidson. Cecil (now known as Cyrus) is quick to warn her away from him. At first she thinks it's a trick but as things start to happen, Natalie finds herself trapped between the thing she wants most in the world and something else quite darker than she imagined. © SCCourtney ~ * ~ Finalist in the Watty's 2012

Abigail Archer lived a non-existent life. That is until Death arrived at her door with an interesting proposition... He asks her to live. But what will Abigail do when she realizes her only reason to live is Death itself? And what will Death do when he realizes that in Abigail, he has found life?

Katrina, Katie, is seeing, secretly of course, the most eligible bachelor in town, William. She acts like she is one of high society, however, once she leaves his house, she enters her reality, A SLAVES LIFE! Isabella is Katie's mistress (in the boss way) and is completly in love with William, the most eligible bachelor in town. Isabella doesn't know about Katie and William and sets about trying to catch him as her own. Charlie is a stablehand for the horse-drawn carriages. He has been Katie's best friend ever since they started working for Isabella's family. Charlie is starting to develop feelings for Katie, but who will win over her heart?

Alison might not want to move across the globe but she is relieved that no American boys would take notice of her. Or so she thought. Starting afresh at Cornwall Institution, she joins a new circle of friends and takes on unexpected romantic interests. What will happen when she falls in love with a dark and brooding young professor called Edward who happens to be her best friend's brother? What happens when Alison finds herself questioning Edward’s past and end up finding out about his secrets? Will he be the ultimate key to her happiness and acceptance of America as a place where she can live and grow up in? Or will she always be the lonely foreigner wherever she goes?

Isabelle is born for a reason. She is born to become the Prince's bodyguard. Training her whole life, she has no idea what real women should act like in society. The only thing she knows is how to protect Prince Alexander who is a spoiled and flirty prince. How will she do her job when she begins to get distracted by him?

Angel has had a pretty hard life and through it all she's always tried to keep herself grounded. After she ran away to live with her hippie of an aunt she experiences a normal life but then discovers things she has not known before. Trust. Risks Love. With the returning wrath of her sister upon her, a pysho boy, an ongoing crush and her loving hippie aunt...Who will she finally turn to?

Lianne Hamilton hates three things – her mom, music and the law. She’s a delinquent who’s about to head off to juvie unless she attends Moverly, the most elite performing arts school in the state. There, she rediscovers her love for music and slowly begins to lower the walls she had so carefully crafted around her heart. Soon she comes to value three things the most – her friends, her music and most importantly, herself.

Thorn Fantari is an average girl, the kind with average looks and average clothes. Nothing high-end going on about her. But her personality? Crazy unique. Crazy random, just like the next question. Her heart? Broken. Her fiance Jordan has just broken up with her, and Thorn feels as if her sadness will never end. But what happens when she moves to a new town and she answers her doorbell to find a man about her age stroking a toy poodle named Dog? The story of her messed up heart and the oddball who fixed it.