When skin and bone are stolen, darkness uses wings of flesh and lead. ******** Beneath the vibrant city of Mallinasport, awash in the pollution is Imus, a community as bleak as the futures of those who live there. With little food or water, it's all Aeris can do to make it day by day and keep the shop her father left her running. When the fabled circus returns, it brings a small reprieve from daily life. Or so it seems until Aeris is delivered a mysterious warning and a boy falls from the sky. Darkness haunts the night, taking people with it. Aeris finds herself captive in a twisted and barbaric ploy for power, in a world forgotten beneath the city. Enlisting the help of a fellow captive, they must plan their escape before Aeris is sent to the arena, or killed. The boy from the sky holds the key to saving her.

I am only fifteen...how could this happen to me? I am nerdy-straight 4.0 GPA, never smoked, never done drugs, never had a boyfriend, never had sex, never tasted alcohol, so why did he have to kidnap me? And how does One Direction fit into this mess?

I have none so here's an excerpt: "... I can't tell you to stay with me because I believe that the color of clingy does not go with my skin tone. I can not express to you my loneliness or general emotion when I go without you for a while. I won't bare my soul out of a fear that is etched into it..." My thoughts in varying levels of my depression. No rhyme or reason. Prone to updates of chapters after publishing.

It's almost Jenna's 30th birthday, and she and Julien have been dating for a while. Jenna's hoping Julien will POP the question, and they both can't wait to start a family and POP out some babies. But things might not be turning out how they planned ...