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β... What you pay is what you get.β Those were the last words of Gilbert, one of Alice's only 'friends'. Of course, the fifteen-year-old Brit would never admit it, she was all alone and she didn't care. But after what the German (Gilbert) had asked her, that one word destroyed her mind. Why? Why did she hate the world? Why didn't she care? Why was she so alone? She had bullied so many people and taken lives without knowing, just by mistreating the people around her. Deciding that she had had
Join two different teens, 1 from the Ice Tribe and 1 from the Fire Tribe as they use their powers to save their Tribes from destruction, and, in the end, find something they never dreamed of finding. ZoΓ« is pure cold. But cold doesnβt always mean evil. In her Tribeβs land, the temperature is always cold to benefit their icy powers and to keep them alive. But, when a strange wanderer puts a spell on their land to make it warm, they must bond with the Fire tribe to keep from dying. Then Zoeβs
McTeague's once trusted friend and associate, Wheelan, has broken off part of the older mobster's crime empire around the east Midlands. Far worse, Wheelan has also taken McTeague's much younger second wife, Claire, away with him. Knowing the rest of his empire will fall away or defect to Wheelan if he fails to act, McTeague sends his trusted and lethal enforcer, Hennessy, to Sleaford to show Wheelan who is chief and to take Claire back home. So Hennessy starts a campaign of violence until