Lyons, CJ

Eighteen-year-old Ella Cleary has synesthesia, which allows her to read people's emotions through colorful auras that surround them. She can read anyone, except for Alec Ravenell, a student journalist who comes to ask Ella about the death of her parents years ago. Shockingly, Alec tells Ella that her parents were actually murdered and he is looking into the case. Together they uncover a plot that involves Ella's substantial inheritance, and uncovers mysteries years in the making that are only just now coming to fruition.

When Scarlet finds out she has a terminal heart condition, she requests to be able to attend high school to discover what it is like to have a normal life. As she adjusts to the norms of her new school, however, she realizes there is a shocking secret waiting to be unearthed, and learning more about it may prove more fatal than her heart.

Jesse seems like a normal sixteen-year-old, but he isn't. He is a victim of King--a ruthless hacker who has been blackmailing Jesse with incriminating screen photos and videos. Terrified and helpless, the answer to Jesse's prayers arrives in the form of a plain manila envelope. Inside there's a phone number and a note: I can help.

When teenager Jesse is contacted by a former victim of King, a hacker who is currently stalking Jesse, Jesse is faced with the decision whether to join with the former victim and seek revenge on King, or continue to cede to King's demands.

Attending high school for the first time, chronically ill Scarlet, with the help of her new friends, faces down bullies, endures her school-nurse mother's smothering overprotectiveness, and eventually discovers the truth behind her illness--a truth that puts much more than her life at risk.