"We are all searching for someone whose demons will play well with ours" -Meghan Coates Wisconsin is just a girl with obsessive compulsive disorder. No, her room doesn't look like a hospital, and crooked lines don't drive her more insane than any other regular person. But she sits there, picking at her skin. Peeling the skin off her lips and fingertips. Most people don't notice, they just think she has chapped lips. Blade has anger issues that have gotten him into some serious dilemmas. Fortunately, he hasn't killed anyone--his dad stopped him before he could snap the neck of the newspaper boy who didn't throw the paper closer to him when he was so clearly waiting for it. On one ordinary Wednesday, the two collide. Literally. Can the girl who can barely keep herself together help the boy everyone has given up on? Can he provide what's needed to occupy her mind from tearing herself apart? Spoiler alert: he doesn't kill her.

When Franny learns why former popular boy Tyler fell from grace, she gets thrown head-first into his dangerous world but also closer to his timid heart. ***** Eighteen-year-old Tyler Madden used to have everything. He was captain of the football team, popular, high achiever, and was set to have a successful career. But when a secret too hard to handle comes to light, he turns to underground fighting to deal with the pain. Now, he's in too deep. And when Francesca Howard befriends him at school in the hopes of figuring out what went wrong, she unknowingly gets pulled into the criminal world he's now stuck in. As the two find comfort in each other, they find themselves faced with their impending future and trying to get Tyler out alive. Content/Trigger Warning: this story contains scenes pertaining to drug use, substance abuse, and violence. [#1 in teen fiction, romance and action]