Alexandra Thompson never quite fit in and always felt like a supporting character in her own life. Always putting on a performance, Alex tried to be the person everyone wanted her to be. However, being just a placeholder in her social group, Alex knew she would inevitably be replaced and left utterly alone. Alex’s best friend, Libby Keller, had no problems fitting in. All of the girls in Alex’s Senior class wanted to be Libby, and all of the boys wanted to get into her pants. Correction: The few boys who hadn’t been in Libby’s pants wanted to screw her. When Libby finds herself running out of available men to mess with, she moves onto Alexandra’s lifelong crush: Benjamin Flynn. In a strange twist of events, Alex becomes a confidant to Ben, and a new friendship forms that leads to so much more. When Ben falls for Alex, she finds the love of her life but loses everything else, including herself. Alex’s low self-esteem and poor body image soon delivers Ben to death’s door, and she is forced to go on a journey of self-discovery. However, she quickly learns she is her own worst enemy.

In 1862, the country we love was split into two opposing sides, leaving our ancestors fighting battle after bloody battle. After living for years in war torn South Rotta, young Catherine Cooney finds herself assuming the unfamiliar role as family matriarch. Catherine spent her entire life living on her family’s vast 750 acre farm being taken care of by her parents and their vast amounts of slaves but now the plantation is abandoned and deteriorating before her very eyes. Catherine soon faces the dire realization that she and her family may not survive this war. While dealing with her own changing beliefs and the hatred of many people in her tiny town of Goldsboro; Catherine must overcome many obstacles. Catherine is willing to do almost anything to ensure her family’s survival, even if that means committing murder or selling her body for money. After murdering one of the men who beats her former slave, Catherine is attacked by two angry rebel men who seek vengeance and retribution. Being left for dead, Catherine is forced to depend on a most unlikely ally. Henry Washburne joined the United Army for the sole intention to aid in keeping the country whole. He never imagined he would be injured and left behind. Alone and dying, he stumbles across a southern plantation home and develops an unexpected relationship with a young southern belle. However, deeply haunted by his own guilt and pride, he is thrown back into the war and is exposed to unimaginable evil and a pure hell on earth. Henry begins to slowly spiral out of his mind, reliving each inhumane act he has committed during the war over and over again. Only the memory of his southern belle keeps him from going insane, and he barely clings to his sanity by a thin line. What Henry will return to when the war is over is unknown and he only has his hope and memories to keep him going.

The Earth as we know it has been destroyed during a nuclear world hundreds of years ago, and the human race is dying out. Children are scarce, and the world depends on six breeding islands outside of the Radiation Zone to keep humankind alive. The heroine of The Mating Game lives on one of the breeding islands. Addison was two years old when she was taken from the Radiation Zone and brought to an island in the Pacific, where she has been raised in a containment camp for the last eighteen years. She has never had contact with any men and has been raised by women who are not related to her for one reason and one reason only to reproduce. At age twenty, Addison has reached breeding age, and it is time for her to join her mating group, where she and two other women will have intercourse with their male leader to create offspring. Addison will never be a mother, she will never have a marriage, and she will never have a home. Once she becomes pregnant, she will be with her child for one year, and then she will be moved into another mating group. This cycle will continue until menopause which at that time she will either become a nonviable and take care of the young girls in the containment camp, or she will be banished to the Radiation Zone. Addison is a prisoner in her own life. Aaron is the leader of Addison’s current mating group, and he has loved and lost once before, and he refuses to develop feelings for any of the women in his group because he knows the end game. This is a duty to him. He must perform his job, or the elders on the island will punish his entire mating group. Aaron will never see, hold, or meet any of his children. Once a female in his group becomes pregnant, she and the unborn child will be taken away. Every year Aaron will receive a new group of women he is to impregnate, and this cycle will continue until the day Aaron dies.