Nicole Janicek has survived being shot, but can she overcome the blues of her early 20s? Nearly four years after foiling a shooting plot at her high school and saving countless lives, Nikki begins a short-lived internship as a newspaper reporter; gets hired as a flak by an organization whose leadership consists of people labeled troublemakers by the Church of Scientology; confronts the source of her nightmares, Thomas Lee Harvey; puts her long-term relationship with Derek Schobell to the test; learns a disturbing secret from her friend, Adam Upton, and considers a high-risk offer to leave the...

When Nikki Janicek sprints from the 200-degree sauna out into the 100-below darkness wearing nothing but bunny boots, at least she's not alone. She already has survived months of solitary confinement, a forced swim with sharks and a scary journey to the South Pole. Now she's a member of The 300 Club, an exclusive group of people on the planet who have endured a 300-degree temperature swing in a matter of seconds. It's all part of her training for a six-person, one-way mission to Mars. Nikki wants to go, but not with The Bridge - a space-obsessed company that abducts, controls and violates...

A teacher and her young students use whispers and wishes to turn a school lockdown into something positive - a quiet journey of the imagination and a lesson on treasuring childhood regardless of the situation.