For months Summer is trapped in a cellar with the man who took her - and three other girls: Rose, Poppy, and Violet. His perfect, pure flowers. His family. But flowers can't survive long cut off from the sun, and time is running out...

When Charles is left home alone for the first time, he is ecstatic. Not long after his parents leave, however, he begins to receive a string of increasingly strange text messages.

Cherry blossom lipstick: check Smokey eyes: check Skinny jeans: check Dead kid in the mirror: check For sixteen year old Mattie Hathaway, this is her normal everyday routine. She's been able to see ghosts since her mother tried to murder her when she was five years old. No way does she want anyone to know she can talk to spooks. Being a foster kid is hard enough without being labeled a freak too. Normally, she just ignores the ghosts and they go away. There's a little glitch this time. The ghost she sees is her foster sister, Sally. Everyone thinks she's just another runaway. Mattie knows the truth, though-she's dead, murdered. Foster kids look out for each other and Mattie feels like she has to help Sally, but she can't do it alone. Against her better judgment, she teams up with a young police officer and together they set out to discover the truth of Sally's disappearance. Now the killer has set his sights on her. It becomes a race to see if she can find the truth before the serial killer finds her.

Checklist: 1. Eat my birthday cake. 2. Thank Forty-eight and Thirty-two for everything, just in case. 3. Get Niely. 4. Hack into the council. 5. Save Nine. And possibly the world.

Willow Courts is a 17 year old maid. She has been living in an orphanage since her parents died in a plane crash when she was 8 up until the Meyers, a rich, high class family, took her in to be their maid. When the Meyers son comes back from a fancy boarding school, this being the first time Willow has even seen him before, could she begin to develop feelings for him?