A teenaged girl bullied for her port-wine stain must summon her personal strength to survive abduction and horrific abuse at the hands of a deranged killer.
Jacob, a boy who can speak to birds, realizes he is the prophesized one who will lead his kingdom to freedom from the tyrannical rule of Lord Manning, and sets out to save the egg of the world's last dragon.
Fifteen-year-old Kendra, a budding artist who has not felt safe since she began to remember devastating memories of childhood sexual abuse, cannot seem to recall her abuser's identity and copes with the stress by cutting herself.
