The Doctor said I should be dead. My heart beat furiously. I looked up at the flashes of lightning in the sky. Yes, I should be dead. Why wasn't I? Seventeen year old Lisa Brown's life is falling apart. First, her mother and father divorce, then their house forecloses and now, her mother has decided to commit herself to a psychiatric hospital. If that weren't enough, she must leave sunny south Florida to attend a boarding school full of geniuses in cold, Lynn, Massachusetts. The city where the locals chant "Lynn, Lynn, city of sin; you never come out the way you went in." And, they aren't...

Christina Black's mother has cancer and her father, well, he's vanished. What will she do without her mother, where will she go when she dies and how will she cope? A tale for those who are suffering or have suffered loss.

Shay is scientific experiment #318. Science may have created her, but she refuses to allow it to blind her to the difference between right and wrong... Synthetic Hominid Assumed Youth (S.H.A.Y.) is eighteen years old, which means she has completed Phase One: Developmental. Shay no longer requires the assistance of her Optional Human Parent, Darla, who has guided her in the process of discovering her morality. Shay loves her easy, charming life aboard the marine research facility and doesn't want it to change. Phase Two: Experimental. All S.H.A.Y. ages 18-20 will experience loss... Darla...

Escape Marine Research: Complete. Survival mode activated... Shay and her Optional Human Parent Darla escape Dr. Cole and make it across the Miami border from the Marine Research Facility, but their safety comes at a hefty price. Shay thought hitting Eric in the head would save him from being reset, but there was too much blood. She has no idea if he survived or what will happen to N.I.C. without her there. Capture of S.H.A.Y. initiated. Hybrid hunter released... If a highly skilled hybrid hunter tracking her through the streets of Miami isn't enough to worry about, Shay's corporate sponsor...