**MxM. If you're reading "His Weakness", this is the story of Theo and Phil.** Theo Blackwell is a good looking kid with a hot temper and a tendency to run toward trouble. Successful running back of the football team, he's always been a part of the popular crowd. Phil Echevaria is the shy, introverted new kid on the block. When the infamous Theo intervenes during an incident with the school bully, Phil winds up on his radar. When friendship morphs into something else, can the innocent introvert and corrupted extrovert maintain their close relationship? Or will gender norms and peer expectations drive them apart?
*Book 1* Violet may be best friends with Charlotte the most popular girl in school but she's always been the shy tag-along nerd. She thinks her life is a nightmare but when strange men break into her home and drag her from her home into a nasty, dark cell without any explanation she's sure it is. Uprooted and terrified, she finds that she's not alone in the darkness and quickly finds out that she doesn't belong amongst this group. Why does she keep hearing a voice inside of her head? And why are all of the children sharing the cell frightened of the person wearing the navy hoodie?
Lilian is the depiction of innocence. Taken in by a convent leader, she has lived a very sheltered life and developed a strong understanding of Christian morality. When she wins a full academic scholarship to her dream college, it's her first time experiencing life outside of the church and almost immediately she's "adopted" into a group of extroverts who make a pact to start knocking off her list of "firsts". These little "corruptions" are frazzling for Lily but she seems to be adjusting to campus life okay until she meets Lucius. He's dangerously handsome and always seems to be in the right place at the right time. When night terrors from her childhood come back and she begins seeing one of her classmates face every time she closes her eyes, she wonders if she's going insane or is Lucius more than what he seems?
What was supposed to be a move away from all of the trouble surrounding the Bartholomeu family quickly turns into a nightmare for it's youngest member Gertrude aka Gigi. It's bad enough that they insist on saying her full first name during roll call for every class at her new school but now she keeps seeing this weird symbol everywhere. When she starts being haunted by a faceless girl doing everything in her power to get her attention, Gigi finds herself stumbling upon the house's dark past and into a guy who seems to hold the key to solving the mystery of the faceless girl.
**GxG. If you're reading "Stop Him" this is the story of Kiki and Addy.** Kirsten (Kiki) Hernandez has a crush which isn't abnormal for the passionate, bubbly teen. . . but this time it's on a girl. Addison Electus has the beauty, the grades, and all of the popularity but makes it clear she has no interest in making new friends. In Kiki's pursuit of Addison, she stumbles upon Addison's secret and everything she thought she knew about her mundane hometown gets turned upside down.