When a murder shakes her tiny village, Alera will discover a horrifying link between the scars on her arms and the werewolves and vampires that stalk her home. ***** Nineteen-year-old Alera has grown up in the village of Adaymos, listening to stories about the monsters that live in the forest that surround her home. Labelled an outcast because of the scars on her arm, she's an easy scapegoat after one of the villagers is found murdered, but when newcomer Will is framed instead she's forced to question everything she knows about the mysterious outsider. Could he really be the killer? Or is he hiding more about the werewolves and vampires that live in the forest -- and the truth behind Alera's scars -- than he lets on? [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

"Every boy I've kissed, freezes from the inside out- except for you" *** Aspen Iverson has a gift, a deadly gift that has haunted her for the past seventeen years, where everything Aspen touches- frost erupts. After another accident at school, Aspen is suddenly whisked away to Thornhill Academy, a school for people like her, and she is swept up in a world that Aspen couldn't have dreamed of. A world full of werewolves, vampire royalty, and witches that could conjure just about any potion you want. Suddenly Aspen has a new life, juggling both her attempt to grow closer to who she's destined to be and her feelings for a boy with fire in his eyes. A boy whose fiery touch could possibly melt Aspen's icy interior. But with a famous serial killer on the loose, strange things happening at school, and a friend gone missing- Aspen is determined to figure out the culprit, even if it mean't uncovering dark secrets along the way. disclaimer- not edited, first story, show mercy. *first book in the Iverson series