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In a world filled with nightmares and pain, the only thing that can break through is the light of imagination! Nonnie's life has not been easy. Even at a young age she has had to fight for everything she loves in her life. Just when she thought the three of them were safe, the curse of their family came to claim Nana. Now at eighteen years old, the family familiar, Budgie the Badger, is training her to be the warrior she is destined to be. It is a race against the clock as she rushes to find the ultimate power source to fuel her gifts.

When the nightmares used to be your everyday life, and the smell of your friends burning alive is nothing but a faint memory of their existence. How do you move on with life and not try and become what they are, a distant memory?

What do you do when your entire world is turned upside down? When loss is so all-consuming that it feels like it's going to swallow you whole. We won, but at a cost so consuming we couldn't survive. They all left me, and when you're so broken that you don't even know how to gather the pieces back together, it allows new demons to come in. I should fight them, push them away, but they feed on my pain and make it bearable. But how long can it go on before I break?

Everything in her heart belongs to the man in the black trench coat, but the collar around her neck tells a different story. Living in Scappoose, Oregon isn't exactly what you'd call thrilling. It's all blue jeans and cornfields as far as the eye can see, and I'm suffocating here. I've got bigger dreams than this town can hold, I want to be one of those girls who actually makes it past the county line. But just when I think I've got my escape plan figured out, fate decides to mess with me in the shape of a six-foot-four southern redhead named Colt.

How My Knight Got his Scars Kids are supposed to be protected from all the evils and darkness of the world, but what do you do when the kids are the ones doing the protecting? She says I am her Knight, but there is nothing shining about me. Crawling from the darkest tar pits of hell, I am lucky to be alive. Looking in Remi’s eyes as I tell her my story, I am afraid she will only see me as the monster I was made to be. The evil of my past haunts me every day with a secret I have not shared with anyone outside of my family.