Frey and Rafi are inseparable ... two edges of the same knife. But only one of them is ever seen in public. Frey is Rafi's twin sister-and her body double. Their powerful father has many enemies, and the world has grown dangerous as the old order falls apart. So while Rafi was raised to be the perfect daughter, Frey has been taught to kill. Her only purpose is to protect her sister, to sacrifice herself for Rafi if she must. When her father sends...

Jessica Day, and her four friends, the "midnighters", are the only ones in Bixby, Oklahoma that know the world freezes at midnight, and as they battle evil creatures living in the hour hidden they learn about Bixby's shadowy past and uncover a deadly conspiracy that reaches beyond the secret hour.

After being captured and surgically transformed into a "special, " teenaged Tally Youngblood, now a government agent programmed to protect society from outside threats, is ordered to eliminate the rebel colony New Smoke, Tally's former home.

Upon Tally's sixteenth birthday she undergoes an operation to turn from an ugly duckling into a stunning girl, but she makes a promise just before the surgery to be the guinea pig for a future experiment.