All that glitters is not gold. Natalia Vanderley knows that better than most. In the dystopian society of Astoria, the principal city of the Concordis, you might never know that there used to be an entirely different world before the War of 2012. Instead of chaos and indecision - there is a system. After the decrease of females in the War, there are two males fitted to one female. Unless you have the option of letting science choose for you, the female is on her own and must choose her partner - a decision for life. Natalia Vanderley is seventeen years old and one of the privileged. She has science make her decision - until a terrible mistakes wrecks her Choice. Now, she makes the decision on her own, without any idea as to what she will finally Choose. With West & Josh fighting to be by her side, she must decide. Lust, deceit, anger and fear are just different faces of love. Because love can make you lie. Love can make you kill. Love can make you question the very world you live in.

Mara had always wondered what happened to people and their legacy after they've died. She didn't want to be forgotten that easily, all due to the stupid fact that everyone is destined to die at one point or another. To avoid being nothing more than a mark on the ground with a few mundane words in remembrance, she started filming her life until the day that her big break in Hollywood came knocking on her door. It would make a good start to a reality TV shows or a documentary, at the very least. When Ethel found the videos of the girl, she didn't know what to expect. What she certainly didn't expect to find was a girl so lost in the world of the bright lights that she began to see them as stars lined up in front of her and the only source of light in the whole world. How long could a girl last in a world full of fake smiles and how long can Ethel watch it go on for? All Mara wanted was to be amaranthine; for her legacy to last on for years and years after she hit the END button on her camcorder, but Ethel didn't know if that was even something a teenager could handle all on her own.

When kids are young and full of innocent wonder, they're asked the question that will haunt them far into their adult lives: what do you want to be when you're older? Kyleigh Frost's answer to this very question was that she wanted to be thin. Ever since she could remember, all she wanted to do with her life is to be the skinniest girl out of everyone she met on the streets. If she couldn't be the brightest kid in her school or win the next cycle of America's Next Top Model, she might as well be the thinnest one there. After all, to be fat is the biggest sin one could ever commit in today's society.