Tessa Young is an 18 year old college student with a simple life, excellent grades, and a sweet boyfriend. She always has things planned out ahead of time, until she meets a rude boy named Hardin, with too many tattoos and piercings who shatters her plans.

Carter and Carissa are twin sisters. Their mom died when they were 2. Their Dad now beats them because of their moms death. What happens when they meet twin thugs Zay and Zack? Will they save them from their misery or stick to their thug ways?

Essence is a girl who recently turned seventeen. In her eyes , her world is falling apart. She lost both parents in the tragic 9/11 plane crash, she was then put in the system and brutally beaten by her first family. Then given to another man. He treated her like his own the first few months then the real him came out ... A junkie & drunk. What happens when the youngest drug lord ends up at Essence home for a late fee on money, her foster dad owes?