Overview: The first ten lies they tell you in high school. "Speak up for yourself--we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated...

When an eleven-year-old girl is found murdered, Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner for the Commonwealth of Virginia, gets another chance at stopping one of the most heartless and horrifying serial killers of her career: the demented Temple Gault.

How far will Sabryn go to save the kingdom that won't welcome her back?Can the family Meri's never met rescue her from the fairies who hold her captive?Will Zia and her friends manage to destroy the sword that shouldn't exist and appease the dragons before her family comes in the line of fire?One family caught in the middle of a feud between fairies and dragons. Three young women who take life and magic into their own hands.