As long as Nora Sparrow can remember, Owen has protected her. He's been there through years of miserable foster homes and snobby mean girls, always whispering to her that she doesn't belong here. Telling her that this is the mundane world, and someday, he'll get them back to Helicon, the world of the muses. The world where they belong.

But Nora's fifteen years old, and she isn't sure she quite believes it anymore. When he begs her to try another ritual to open the dimensions, she agrees mostly to humor him. Owen's rituals never work.

But this one does, and Nora is flung into the...

Nora Sparrow wants to feel safe now that her crazed ex-boyfriend Owen has been exiled from Helicon, the land of the muses. She wants nothing more than to sculpt, dance, and play, the way a muse should. But her fear of Owen casts a shadow over everything. She can't even commit to a relationship, because she fears being smothered and controlled.

Everyone else thinks the threatening message in the snow was a joke. They think Nora's anxious mind conjured up the bouquet of dead flowers in her tent. But Nora knows that Owen is still after her. Nothing will stand in the way of his obsessive...

When Sloane Drake learns her best friend Leigh has gone missing in Boston, she expects the worst. She and the rest of the ex-assassins go after Leigh to discover her whereabouts. No one's seen her, not even Axel Whitman, the arrogant rich boy who used to be Leigh's best friend.

Sloane has always stuck to the shadows. She's not flashy, she doesn't take charge, and no one notices her. But when everyone else disappears as well, she's left on her own. She's got to find where the others have been taken, and she's got to rescue them.

Axel wants to help. He's a careless playboy who owns a...