"Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them." Holly Black _________________________________ Alivia is a twenty old college student who wants to be a nurse. During one of her breaks, her family wanted to take her to go visit her Uncle down in Texas, but everything takes an unsuspected turn when she walks inside a certain liquor store.

"When my friends ask me why I stayed so long, why I accepted the roses and ignored the thorns I tell them it's not easy to weed out the roots he planted in me," _________________________________ Alivia made it back home to college and it's been three months. Fear and hallucinations cloud her mind on end. On the night of her twenty-first birthday, she gets a call from Kate, quickly dropping everything to be at Seth's rescue. More problems stacking up afterward.

"Be strong but not rude. Be kind but not weak. Be bold but don't bully. Be humble but not timid. Be confident but not arrogant." -unknown ___________________________________ Problems arise with Alivia as she asks for help from Richie, which leads to an unspoken relationship between the two of them. Alivia and Seth had spoken, but Alivia didn't get the answer she wanted and they have to work together to defeat the uprising evil from hell.