Vampires and werewolves. Demons and angels. Sprites and pixies. Elves and ogres. They aren't just bedtime stories or things for teenage girls to drool over. They're real. They're just hidden. And now there's a place for them to go. *** Chayse is a vampire who just discovered that she's a princess, heir to the throne. No way that could possibly be her...right? Well, when Will--a mysteriously sexy werewolf--comes to screw up everything she thinks she knows, that logic is quickly twisted. Will is a hard-to-come-by werewolf who has more than a few secrets. While everyone is trying to pry him open, he's sealing himself away. Not from them--from himself. Amber is a demon trained in every possible fighting type--jujitsu, judo, karate, and a lot more. She's skeptical and closed off, and no one really bothers with her anymore. Until the delightful elf Finley steps into her life on a complete coincidence, she's never had any thought of anyone. Finley (or Fin, as Amber calls him) is a sweet, hyperactive elf with ADD. He wears his heart on his sleeve and has wits, though no one really sees them. He's quick to a laugh and easily sympathetic. He's a bit of a chicken, but he'll protect his passion before anyone else. Akumu Maki is a quiet dark angel girl who mostly lives within the shadows, hiding from the world. She's never noticed despite her sharp mind and skillful fighting techniques. The only one who seems to notice her is a boy they call Abel. And he just seems to observe her...and that's what attracts her. Abel is an inconclusive--someone who hasn't been assigned a race. He's believed by the others to be borne from a demon man and an angel woman--the highest of crimes within the two communities. The offspring of the two races is reffered to as a phantom. But not even Abel knows what he is...

Seventeen-year-old April Parker wakes up in an underground facility, a shock bracelet on her wrist and a five-day countdown on the clock. Dozens of other teens share her inexplicable fate, but their unseen captors never intervene no matter how brutal conditions become. When the ruthless - and unnervingly magnetic - Marcus seizes control, April's trauma-forged instinct is to lay low. But protecting her friends drives her to bargain with the boy she should fear most - a boy whose reality fractures with every tick. Then the countdown ends, and the real terror begins. Powers ignite. Alliances shatter. And predators are born. And with a saboteur among them determined to keep the doors closed forever, escaping what comes next may be the only way to survive it.