Life is messed up. You can get out of one sea of trouble just to drown in another and no one knows it better than Janey. A mid semester camping trip with her friends sounds great until someone new is thrown in the mix -- a mysterious, drop dead gorgeous senior that traded his big city Chicago life for a small country town. His reason why? That's classified information. In spite of his hidden past, Janey's best friend Destiny falls head over heels -- hard -- a feeling Janey tries to knock out of her. But when someone's past blocks the way, and another trusts too easily, Destiny's fate is sealed.
NOTE: This story is rated mature because of it's detailed description of a death.
Alyssa has forgotten her brush with Death, but David's words have stayed with her: prepare. For what? She doesn't know. For a year, she's trained and become an almost undefeated boxer, putting all of her grief for the boy she loved and lost into being the best fighter. She's fast, strong, fearless.
Now strange things have started happening, and she thinks she's losing her mind.
How is she supposed to fight against what she can't see? Her mother's mind is clouded with a darkness no medicine can fix, and an ancient shadow circles the town, and Alyssa knows it's somehow related to her.
Gifted in ways she doesn't understand, she's thrust into a triangle of devotion and danger-an angelic protector who refuses to leave her alone, a boy whose hands have held hers through the nights, and a darkness that wants only to make her surrender.
In a race that runs as fast as her fists, Alyssa must choose who to trust and how much of herself to give-because the only way to stop a thing that feeds on light may be to become what it fears most. Will she save her mother and keep her humanity, or the secrets hasn't discovered cost her everything?