Book one of the colors trilogy. Whinny is no normal girl and Nico knows that when he sees her alone in the rain. 5 years later and nothing about her has changed.

This isn't a clichè love story, I feel proud to announce. This isn't a story where rivalry brings Nico Di Angelo and I together, at least I don't like to think that. No, it's so much more terrifically terrifying. I should have been grateful that they took me away from the place that was tearing me apart. I should have just smiled and gone along with it. I should have told them the truth, my name and the things I remembered that still haunted me. Then maybe I wouldn't have been thrown into that quest. The quest that was just; A Quest. Dangerous but not impossible. It wasn't real, it was a diversion. Made to stop us from seeing the spiralling abyss of horror threatening humanity. Now I, Raven Cyan Grey, was responsible for the life threatening problems laying at the feet of two 15 year olds. And Nico Di Angelo you ask. Yes. He was ALWAYS there. * "Run until you reach your shadow." She said, smiling her sad smile and disappearing from my view. Little did I know what evil consumed my mother. ***