It's senior year and seventeen-year-old Tariq Broward is looking forward to many things. Prom, graduation, college basketball, and now proving his innocence in a capital murder charge. Who did he kill? His best friend Kyle Warner, who died after hitting his head on the bathroom sink at school. The only two people there-Tariq and Kyle. And what's this about a hate crime? True, Tariq is black, and Kyle is white, but they were brothers. At least that is what Tariq thought. Soon Tariq will find out what it really means to be a young black man in a predominantly white community and trapped inside a legal system that targets people based on the color of their skin.

After her brother is killed in a case of mistaken identity by an officer, quiet gamer and former track star Jewel Johnson and her family move from Louisiana to Virginia and try to adjust to the cultural differences. There, Jewel falls for her English teacher's quirky but sweet son Zion. There is only one problem. Her English teacher cannot stand her because of her activism and because she's "too dark" for her son. Will Jewel be able to stomach dealing with colorism and racism while also learning to deal with her own internal demons since her twin brother's death? Or will her junior prove to be a bigger challenge than she thought?

*** "*Sobs* I'm so happy to have a character that's exactly like me." - @TakenUsernameSoz. "This story is so normal that it's unique; a breath of fresh air! Gives us normal girls hope, hi hi!" - @LocalSlayer "This book is seriously my inspiration to not be afraid to show who I am." - @Who_Says_Duh "THAT IS SO ME!!!!! IS THIS SOME TYPE OF VOODOO, MAGICAL BOOK OR SOME SHIT?!?!" - @ThePanther10101. *** Let's face it, none of those cliché situations from movies between a guy and a girl ever happen in real life. I'm not going to end up accidentally bumping into my future husband in a café, spilling a latte over him. I'm not going to go up to some random stranger and ask him for directions and he'll become mesmerised by the colour of my eyes and fall in love with me. The window of my bedroom doesn't happen to be situated opposite to that of a 'bad boy neighbour'. I was daydreaming, again. Something I do on a daily basis. Nothing different, right? Well, let's just say I didn't snap out of my little 'trance' until I saw a guy waving frantically at me, smiling. Oh shit, he's hot. He probably thinks I was checking him out. Great, now he's coming over. Kill me. *** • Highest rankings: #1 in Modeling - #1 in Awkward - #3 in Humor.

Irony {noun} - a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result. Khloe Matthews had never really considered how ironic her life was until she died. At parties, the head cheerleader would do something BIG to get revenge. If this meant spreading secrets and telling lies then she would do it. How ironic is it that Khloe used parties as a way of ending her peers' social lives and in turn someone used her own end of summer party to end her life? The sad thing is that Khloe didn't even really see it coming, but as she recounts her story, it becomes increasingly obvious that her so called 'friends' did. Now her friends will have to learn that just because the bitch is dead, it doesn't mean she's gone. Who said you had to be alive to get revenge? graphic by @obsessedhumor- [highest ranking = #1 in mystery & thriller {29/12/15}] All Rights Reserved Copyright © longtimegone Steal my work-face my wrath.