Aiden Harmon knows pain. Her mother died in a shooting when she was nine, leaving only her and her dad. She'd always been an outcast at school, being called crazy for claiming to see dark humanoid figures following her from afar wherever she goes.
Turns out, she's not crazy. Tragedy strikes her again, and with it a powerful and unexpected discovery. Her life is turned upside down when she is introduced to a whole new world of crazy. Mutants, elemental powers, and zombies. As it so happens, Aiden is one of those mutants.
Born with the ability to control fire from birth, Aiden soon began to realize her true power. There's an entire organization - CHAOS, as they call themselves - that want to take and harness the powers for themselves. Aiden and the rest of the mutants at the Haven are tasked with stopping them - only problem is, Aiden refuses to kill. Ever since her mother died, she swore to never inflict the pain she had felt on someone else.
But she doesn't get the chance to. A dramatic twist of fate leaves her in the hands of CHAOS, who have a secret intention behind taking her - one that isn't harnessing her fire powers like originally thought.
Aiden wasn't a killer. But if CHAOS could get Aiden on their side, the girl who couldn't kill, then they win. And the world will descend into chaos.
Emmy's life is going just as she'd planned: She's living in her own apartment, dancing every day and is just leaps away from being named her company's next Prima ballerina. And she's only 17. But all of Emmy's plans come to a screeching halt when the FBI shows up at her door to let her know that she's being stalked by a serial killer. Suddenly, the safe, insulated world she created for herself is riddled with violence, fear...and a growing pile of dead bodies. At first Emmy wants nothing more than to forget her chilling new reality - but her admirer isn't finished with her yet, and before she knows it, Emmy's stuck in a nightmare she can't dance her way out of.
Content and/or trigger warning: This story contains detailed scenes of murder, rape, torture, sex and stalking, which may be triggering for some readers.
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