Book 2 of the Dark Trilogy. When Darkness Comes, the Blackbourne team found and saved Sang Sorenson, making their way to the Academy's safe shelter compound. Now, In Dark Times, Sang and the Blackbourne team need to learn to work together and learn to survive in their new environment. While in the Academy's safe shelter, are they really safe? What has happened to the rest of the world? What will life be like now? Continue on with the Blackbourne team's journey during this apocalyptic time.

A whole year; they'd been beyond my reach for an entire year and the days just seemed to be getting longer and harder to handle. I visited them every day and watched over them as they rested but how much longer can I continue to endure this? For so many months they were all that I'd had and now I felt like my whole universe had imploded. My true family; the one I'd chosen, my boys. They weren't down the street anymore. I couldn't send them a message and ask them to come and visit. Slowly, as the days turned to weeks and then months, my pain had numbed along with every other emotion and I could function on some level but I hadn't smiled since the day that Dr Roberts had knocked on Nathan's door and informed me that somehow Volto had won. (Previously known as A Twist to Sleeping Beauty) Disclaimer: I don't own The Academy, Ghost Bird, or Scarab Beetle. The Academy, Ghost Bird, or Scarab Beetle and their characters are the property of CL Stone, and are not my intellectual property. There is no financial gain made from this nor will any be sought. This is for entertainment purposes only.

18 year old Sang Sorenson finally has a place she can call her own. But when that place happens to be next door to the leader of the illustrious Blackbourne team, Sang will learn that maybe she's bitten off more than she can chew. Determined to make her new house perfect on her own, she continuously refuses Owen's offer for help. But will she be able to keep him at a distance once the more assertive members of his team make an appearance? Stay tuned to find out in Girl Next Door. **Disclaimer: This story will not be sexually explicit, I'm just marking it as mature to remove it from a mirror website that I do not post on. Cover by: @BelindaPeters-Waine Story Idea by: @JalizaBurwell

Sang Sorenson grew up in Greece and used to be close friends with Silas Korba. But then one day he left with his friend and she never saw him again. At least until six years later, when she moves to Sunnyvale Court in South Carolina. But things can't be fixed with a simple "Hey, great to see you again." Sang has to learn to trust people, to believe that they really will be there, no matter what. She has to learn what a real family is all about. But with bad men out to get her family, how can she do that? Will Sang open up to the Blackbourne team in time for them to help her? **Characters are based from the C.L. Stone's Ghost Bird series and are not mine. This is fan fiction. This story is for entertainment purposes only and will not be sold in anyway.** Book One: Please Don't Leave Me Behind Again (Completed) Book Two: Please Don't Ever Let Me Go (Active) Book Three: Please Don't Let Me Shatter Again (Coming Later)

Sang has been haunted her whole life by a sick boy with an obsession. Tired of being on the run she settles at Charleston to see if her fortune has changed.

Now that North Taylor is eighteen and in a stable environment with the Blackbourne team, he decides it's time to go back overseas and to find the one person he wanted to save the most when he was just a little boy. Sang Sorenson. **Characters are based from the C.L. Stone's Ghost Bird series and are not mine. This is fan fiction. This story is for entertainment purposes only and will not be sold in any way.**

In the sequel to While You Sleep, Sang and the boys will be faced with more shocks as they take on Volto and a painful secret which may threaten to destroy one of them. Disclaimer: C L Stone remains the sole owner to the Ghost Bird series and its characters. I do not claim any of them as my intellectual property and will not seek any monetary gain from this production.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: THIS STORY IS A MATURE READ WITH MULTIPLE PARTNERS. IF THIS BOTHERS YOU, DON'T READ THIS STORY. *FANFICTION OF CL STONE'S ACADEMY SERIES As a maid in the Governor's house, and occasional personal attendtant to Governor Sorenson's spoiled daughter Marie, Sang has learned the value of silence and invisibility. All she wants is to do her job without getting beaten or fired. In a moment of weakness, left alone in Marie Sorenson's room, she puts on one of the extravagant dresses in the wardrobe. As she is twirling in a daydream she is suddenly caught by the last people she thinks to see. The crew of the GhostBird are ruthless, cruel, vile, the epitome of evil and their mysterious Captain Blackbourne is worse. Or at least those are the rumors. And they wouldn't have it any other way. In reality they work for a mysterious organization that works to better the lives of the common people of the Carribeans and help those in need while trying to keep the pirate problem under control. After getting a tip about the corruption of Governor Sorenson they are sent on a mission: Kidnap the beloved and spoiled daughter and find a way to use her to bring her father under control. No one is looking forward to it, until they lay eyes on the twirling beauty in the daughter's room. Without even knowing it she quickly captivates the entire crew and then they find out they have the wrong girl. How can they complete their mission now? Will they let her stay? And what happens when an old enemy rears his head?

For her entire life, Sang Soreson only knew about violence and the last two years taught her how to survive. And now, as a shifter, she is losing herself. Sang doesn't know how to just be, just to live, not after what she had to go through. Not after dealing with death, blood, and violence. But luckily for her, the Blackbourne team believe in her. And are willing to put her back together so that she may truly be free. **Characters are based from the C.L. Stone's Ghost Bird series and are not mine. This is fan fiction. This story is for entertainment purposes only and will not be sold in any way.** Thanks to rosebud024 for coming up with the title and creating the wonderful book cover for me!! You're awesome.

Sang isn't a fifteen-year-old cowering at the hands of her stepmother. She's on her own. Eighteen and living in a house her father bribed her with alongside two faithful dogs, she's been paving her own way since the payout a year ago. When Marie died in a car accident, her mother was hospitalized and her father remarried. Sang was left with a house on Sunnyvale Court, another two years in high school, and no friends to speak of. She's made it just fine on her own and she's not apologizing for existing anymore. Meeting nine new guys right before her senior year at Ashley Waters is an odd coincidence that shakes her foundation and causes her to reevaluate what matters to her. After all, she didn't need friends then, she doesn't need friends now. Right?