He was standing in the corner with a sly smile on his face. I didn't know what he was doing, or why he was doing it. But honestly, I kind of liked it. I saw his hand motion me towards him and the next second, he was kissing me. His lips pressed against mine, opening, closing....He stopped and, surprising him, but surprising me most of all, I pulled him closer and kissed him harder. " Wait," I heard myself say. " Boundaries, we've got to have boundaries." He bit his lip and I felt his hand slide up my shirt. " Yeah, but not tonight."

Death is what comes to people like a thief in the night, snatching them with no intentions of bringing them back. Death is a nagging parent that you try to outsmart time and time again but no matter how many times you may think you have outsmarted them, in the end they will have the last word. Death is the old friend that nobody likes and yet you cannot live without. Death is many things but I never thought it would be my lover. Kore lives alone with her controlling mother, Demi. She hasn't seen any other person besides her homeschool teacher since she was a little girl after a mysterious incident happened at school one day that her mother refuses to talk to her about. She keeps her locked away on a farm and only lets her go out occasionally. It isn't until her cat dies and after picking him up, becomes alive again when she realizes why her mother has locked her away for all these years. She discovers she has the gift of healing. When she confronts her mother about it, her mother reveals to her that they are not human but in fact, Goddesses trapped inside human vessels to protect Kore from the Gods who want to marry her. But things only get worse when one day, as Kore is picking flowers in the meadow, there is an earthquake and she is taken up by this earthquake and falls into the arms of none other than Hades. A modern re-imagining of the story of Persephone.

Secrets of Avery Charlotte, a simple country girl, has known nothing but her country ways. Her parents have always been overly strict, Christian parents. Charlotte goes to church every Sunday, does her chores around the house and on the farm, and goes to school. Her plain life changed quickly when Avery comes to her small town, Monroeville Alabama. Everyone drools over Avery since he is cute, mysterious, and quiet, but no matter how hard any girl tries, Avery only wants Charlotte. After a while of rejecting Avery, she finally starts to like him. Will things change when she learns that Avery is really an angel?