Once there was a girl; Tall, auburn hair, blue eyes, and the sweetest smile on this side of the Atlantic. Then there was a boy; Too perfect to put into words. They both had secrets so powerful even they didn't know them. Little did they know, those secrets would bring them together, for better or for worse.

When someone says California, you immediately think of the beach, the sun, and movie stars, right? Not me. When I think of California, I think of the way it ruined my life. You see, Cali isn't just known for Hollywood. It's also famous, or shall I say, infamous, for it's lethal Acid Rain Storms. There's only two people who have ever survived an acid rain storm. Rumors say that when they came out, they were covered in blood and gore and guts, but somehow still survived. These rumors, as it would turn out, are just rumors. And even though the two teenagers did survive and they were kept in a top secret research facility called the compound, they were left damaged beyond compare. How would I know this? You may ask. Well, I know this because I know the two teens who survived. Heck, even one of them was me. My name is Scarlet, and this is the story of how I went from being a typical book-nerd geek to a person that everyone looked up to. A person that everyone feared.

Meet Carmen, AKA Elenora, who's just an average teenage girl. Well as average as you can be for being in a family of highly trained assassins. But when Carmen wakes up frequently with scrapes and bruises all over her body, she gets sent to the Assassin Academy, a place that shapes young assassins into pure-bred killers. Can the Academy really help with her deadly nightmares? And what happens when her nightmares start pouring into reality? Will all her training in the Academy lead to her death, or maybe a spot on the highest ranking Assassin team in all history? Carmen has a shot at changing her destiny, for better or for worse, but sometimes fate is just to hard to beat.

When Raena was a little girl, she always dreamed of making the world a better place and helping her family survive one more winter. But going behind Raena's back, her parents sold her to a laboratory for money and food. The same laboratory where many kids go in and never come out. They experiment on her, causing her to change. And not just in a hormonal way, but actually change. She is the answer to the scientist's prayers. One experiment that actually worked. They turned her into a dragon. But now she has escaped, and she's out for vengeance, stopping at nothing to get her way. After a 300 years of waiting, It's time for Raena's glorious return, but this time, as a human.