Elaina Dove Sterling is a serenely beautiful girl who hopes she can just continue living. Whilst stupid jealous girls are out to ruin her life, she becomes entwined with the uniquely complex Finn Haven after he witnesses her being assaulted by classmates. After helping her, a one-of-a-kind friendship forms between the two, drawing in all manner of people into their lives. He helps her find her voice and she helps him learn how to love again, and that, is the beauty of the introvert.

Seventeen-year-old April Parker wakes up in an underground facility, a shock bracelet on her wrist and a five-day countdown on the clock. Dozens of other teens share her inexplicable fate, but their unseen captors never intervene no matter how brutal conditions become. When the ruthless - and unnervingly magnetic - Marcus seizes control, April's trauma-forged instinct is to lay low. But protecting her friends drives her to bargain with the boy she should fear most - a boy whose reality fractures with every tick. Then the countdown ends, and the real terror begins. Powers ignite. Alliances shatter. And predators are born. And with a saboteur among them determined to keep the doors closed forever, escaping what comes next may be the only way to survive it.