Arianna Houston is not your average girl living in a dangerous town. She's prepared, cautious and most of all, fearless. But when Arianna is suddenly kidnapped one afternoon, she finds herself getting tossed into the messy world of gangs and into the lives of these gangsters. Arianna has been living Downtown all her life. But as she learns more about her kidnappers and about what they do, she realizes that she never truly knew anything about her town at all and that maybe, their lives aren't so different from her's after all.

Open wounds heal but scars stain a person's heart forever. Amy knows that better than anyone. During a school shooting Amy is held hostage with six other students. In the four hours they are held in the basement they are tourtured and forced to watch each other die. After escaping Amy is left traumitized and unable to let anyone come close to her. She tries to move on with the help of Will, one of the few that survived those four hours in the basement. But with the man still on the loose and crazed their fradgile lives are still held in the rough hands of fate.

A young boy begins to question the values and beliefs of the society he lives in with devastating consequences. [Written in 2008][#1 in Science Fiction - 07/01/12].