"All the dangers coming at you, every single second of your life, it makes you stronger.
But it all comes with a cost.
And that my dear, is the part of being a legacy, cause you never stop fighting.
Because the sake of reality is in every one of our hands."
Calista Viotto has led a standard life. Playing Mario cart and basketball with friends, doing her sophomore homework, crushing on girls, but when mysterious golden marks show up on her skin out of the blue, it starts effecting her family in weirder and creeper ways then others.
Ayla Ramano and her brother have been struggling since the loss of their parents and immigration from Italy, but they've always managed to pull through. But not when strange purple marks have been making Ayla see things and do things no human should be able to.
All Melody Thomas wants is for their parents to except them. Except them for being ace and aro and nonbinary, except them for not wanting to be a doctor and wanting to travel the world. But now that's the least on their mind after they almost making a BUS explode with weird green sparkly magic.
"Be strong Shawn." "You must be independent Shawna." That's what Shawna, or sometimes Shawn, Wilson has been told his whole life. Being told to be strong and not listen to what other people say about you. He's had problems with teasing, being over weight, having vitiligo, and being a genderfluid teenage hasn't helped much, but he's always pushed through it. Until getting weird blue marks and seeing ghosts everywhere happened.
Scarlett wants friends. Being poor, trans, and Muslim doesn't make thing bad, but the fact she's so sensitive, insecure, shy, and just SCARED makes things bad. But then she starts seeing things, horrible things, and making things move with MAGIC, now, now she must be brave.
Join these five in a journey of growth, friendship, love, grief, and sacrifice, as they discover who they are.
Noor, a dancer in the Royal Court of the Al-Yauzhan Empire wants nothing more than to pay off her debts and lead a nice, simple life-but a chance encounter with the crown prince and his brother brings her into the dangerous world of court politics. As Noor and the princes investigate their uncle and cousin's possible treason, she grows closer to the crown prince, but in order to save the kingdom and the person she loves, Noor will have to risk everything...
A romantic adventure set in an imagined Arabic kingdom, THE DANCING GIRL is a story of court intrigues, romantic entanglements, and secret meetings as Noor and her best friend Amir try to help the princes they're falling for expose corrupt court officials with plans to seize the throne. Noor and Amir are close to having everything they've ever dreamed of...now all they need to do is survive.