"When his father dies, Carl Martin inherits a house in an increasingly rich and trendy London neighborhood. Carl needs cash, however, so he rents the upstairs room and kitchen to the first person he interviews, Dermot McKinnon. That was colossal mistake number one. Mistake number two was keeping his father's bizarre collection of homeopathic "cures" that he found in the medicine cabinet, including a stash of controversial diet pills. Mistake number...

Carson Phillips is just one school year away from graduation. He is at the bottom of the food chain in a high school filled with people he hates, He has just one goal: escape to Northwestern University and have a career as a journalist. His guidance councilor tells him he needs to bolster his application by creating a literary magazine-which means he needs submissions from other students. carson resorts to the only method he can think of: blackmail....