◌◌◌ "Why won't you leave me alone?" Little Maddie asked. "Because I need a friend and so do you." The flickering smokey figure said in a small, boy voice. Maddie smiled and ran up to him "Tag you're it!" Even though her hand touched nothing, she still ran. ◌◌◌ ♢ Maddison has had dreams about the same thing since she could remember. There has been an unknown boy haunting her dreams and even communicating with her when she was little girl. At age ten, after her parents divorced, her and her mom moved, she never saw the boys face again, he vanished. When she returned to her hometown at age 16, even though she had forgot about him, she started to see him again but he wasn't a little boy anymore. He was a teenager. Soon enough, she is known as the highschool girl with an imaginary friend. ♢ ◌◌◌ I walked down the hallway in silence. Even though I was looking down, I knew everyones eyes were on me because of the outburst from yesterday. "Just ignore them" He appeared next to me. I kept walking in silence. If I had said a word to him, someone wouldv'e saw and told everyone I was talking to myself again. I saw the girls bathroom and darted. "It's the girls bathroom, get out!" I checked under the stalls before yelling at him. "Oh I've been in worse places." He smirked. I sighed so loud it let out a loud screech. "Leave me alone! You're ruining my life!" I shut my eyes in anger and stomped. When I opened my eyes he vanished. He vanished for awhile... For days... Then weeks... ◌◌◌

Seventeen-year-old April Parker wakes up in an underground facility, a shock bracelet on her wrist and a five-day countdown on the clock. Dozens of other teens share her inexplicable fate, but their unseen captors never intervene no matter how brutal conditions become. When the ruthless - and unnervingly magnetic - Marcus seizes control, April's trauma-forged instinct is to lay low. But protecting her friends drives her to bargain with the boy she should fear most - a boy whose reality fractures with every tick. Then the countdown ends, and the real terror begins. Powers ignite. Alliances shatter. And predators are born. And with a saboteur among them determined to keep the doors closed forever, escaping what comes next may be the only way to survive it.

This is the sequel to Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board, the first book in the Weeping Willow High School series.

Seventeen year old Emma Fosters is photogirl; always seeing the world through her camera lens. She has the perfect sister, Samantha Fosters, but when Samantha dies in a car accident Emma's life falls apart. Without srtong Samantha as her anchor she is left alone as her mother falls into an old drinking habit. Then there's Evan, Samantha's boyfriend from before the accident, and when he and Emma are together there's a sence of Sam's presence; something they both desire. But there's Jeff, the dark, incredibly cute, new kid who finds a place in Emma's heart almost immediately, but he has a dark past of his own to get through. Suddenly Emma's not so sure if what she see's through her camera lens is what's right. For Emma Fosters moving on has never been harder especially when the person she can't let go of wasn't even hers to begin with.