Hidden Beneath the Shadows (book 1)
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13 year old Dakota is struggling with anxiety and depression. To add on to that her 'ability' is getting worse. She doesn't know how to deal with it, constantly swallowed in her thoughts locked up from the outside world living in fear. School is no better. Being known as the freak who never talks. Dakota is lost in her life. No way to fight her problems, but to separate herself from the rest of humanity. She is hidden beneath the shadows of the world. Her whole life sucks, except for her best friend. Who isn't even a human. Just a mere spirit, so she thinks, who completely understands her and her life. He's the only person she can talk to, and actually be herself. But the one thing Colin never tells her, will lead Dakota to make a huge mistake...
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Nadia Rose Quinn had a sketchy child hood. It all began at the age of five when her parents split up. Then at the age of seven her mam passed away from livers disease after being an alcoholic for two years. Then she was passed through a number of different orphanages till she was ten. He gramps took her in after that and she has lived with her ever since on their farm in the English country side. So when her grandma Sheila passes away Nadia is beside her self, if she though her life was bad then it's worse now. Not old enough to take care of her self at the age of fifteen she is told she can either go back to Italy and live with a man she can hardly remember or be put back in to the adoption system. Not wanting to go back in her life she chooses to travel to Italy to live with her farther. At first she hates it. One day when she decides to go exploring on her farther's speed boat she gets stuck on a island call Borealis, it is here that her life will be changed for ever.
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