my name is Alexis... Alexis Ryan. people just call me Alex. I was kidnapped at the age of 5. when I turn 18 they are suppose to do something to me... but I don't know what. they wont tell me until then. I just hope its not killing me. I live in the basement of the house I am in. I stay there with my best friend Brittney but I call her Britt. she was taken by them at the age of 5 too. she's now 15. we both are forced to go to school. but I don't mind really... I may be bullied at school but I'm stronger than them. school is a place to escape this house. get away from max, Jacob, and lizzie and some big man that hurts us. we always try to find a way to escape but its now use. we have a window but its to far up for us to reach, even if I stood on Britt's shoulders. plus the window is barricaded from the inside and out. and the fact that we have tracking devises in our hips. oh and since the day I was nine I could never talk... why? well you'll have to read my story to figure that out...

High school quarterback Ethan Miller couldn't have been more excited to get away from big city life up in California and move to a small town in Alabama when his father changed jobs. For him, it's an easy transition from city to town. When he begins to help tutoring a very quiet loner by the name of Casen in math, however, he finds himself falling for a girl who's hiding a lot more than just her mp3 player under her hoodie. But how do you save somebody who's too scared to be saved?