Rachel Dale and her brother, Paul, has an alcoholic father and a strict mother. Life has been that way since who knows when. But one summer day, Rachel's grandmother unexpectedly comes for a visit. Rachel's father and her grandmother has never been in good terms since her grandmother never approved of the marriage in the first place. And when Grandma Jean sees how much Rachel's father is a bad impact on her life, she decides to take her and Paul back to her place for a while. For this, Rachel and Paul has to leave their home, and go to the country side. Who knew that from that one small visit, Rachel's life would change forever?

High school is hard for most people and for Chloe Miller, this is no exception. She is forced to learn the perils of her choices the hard way and the result leads her to building a steel wall around herself that is impossible to crack. Eventually, her mother loses her job and Chloe is then forced to move in with her cousin and their family. This means a new school and on the first day she arrives with a dynamite mission in mind. A mission to reclaim everything that she had once lost at the hands of others. She quickly finds herself fighting a past that she struggles to forget and creating a future that she can live with. It becomes a constant battle for her, centered around peer pressure, character stereo types, cliques and consequences. Couple that with the plight of falling in love and she finds herself playing a starring role in the game of life where everyone is playing for keeps. Will she win... or will she lose? Excerpt: Sauntering forwards, she slid onto his lap with all the grace of a prima ballerina and wrapped her long arms around his neck. Leaning in to his ear, she blew out a little puff of hot air so that it fanned lightly over all the right places. She felt a sense of utter satisfaction when he shuddered. Now that Chloe was certain that she had his attention, she whispered in his ear. “You may have been the best bucko, but guess what…..I’m going to be better.” She lifted up so that she could look him in the face and smiled confidently back at him. His previous cocky demeanor had seemed to have lost some of its earlier steam, “Who are you?” he asked so low that only Chloe could hear him. His forehead was creased as he searched her face, watching her as if she was some type of strange puzzle that needed to be solved. Chloe lifted her hand patted his cheek. The boy didn’t have a clue. “I, my friend, am your biggest adversary. So what do you say Mr. Player, won’t you play with me?”

Cody Skigh couldn't give two shits about where he's going or what others think about him. Samantha Green couldn't be more opposite. Her grades and the image her parents have of her mean everything. But what will happen when their paths cross and hidden secrets from both of their pasts begin to unravel?