*Completed* 4/29/17 Highest rank: #65 in Fantasy as of 7/19/17 (THANK YOU!) Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme. Everyone knows the story of Beauty and the Beast, but no one's heard the story like this. Young Bella lived a simple life. She worked as an apprentice to Larissa, the best medical doctor in their small town. Too soon though, things start to crumble around her. An officer appears, nearly begging her to enter the Choosing. Her childhood friend appears, announcing more than just his presence when he sees her again. Just when things start to seem normal again, the Beast attacks; claiming that the Choosing is no longer enough and he wants Bella. Can she make it out alive? Is there more to the Beast than just a killing machine with no regard for the life of others?

Hayley Larrabee moves from her childhood home, Texas, to New York with her brother and parents. Her parents, Sam and Terra Larrabee, are the owners of a multibillion-dollar company called Larrabee industries. They are the 2nd richest company in the world and own more than 10 skyscrapers worldwide. Hayley enrolls into school but soon gets into trouble with 3 bad boys. Her life ends up twisting together with guns, roses, secrets, and of course how could we forget the 3 bad boys.

Olivia has always been ready to meet her Matched partner. However, when the Matching system fails, she is paired with Neo - a heartbroken boy who is totally uninterested in her. *** Olivia Jensen has always known that she will be meeting with her Matched partner at eighteen. She is confident that she will be the perfect pair for him to love her. What she does not expect is Neo Carmichael, a boy who already has loved someone outside of his Match and is not interested in being with her. Completely taken aback by his confession, Olivia finds herself to be the first incompatible Match with Neo by a seemingly 'perfect' Matching system. What seems to be the first signs of the system failing ends up opening a whole new world for Neo and Olivia as they navigate a life that they discover to have been built upon lies and secrets. (Book One of the Death of the Future Series) [[Editor's Pick | April 2021]]