A trio of teenage girls take a Pop Star hostage for their own enjoyment.Elsie McCracken, a teenage scion to her family's business empire, is fed up with being a quiet little girl. She wants to make a name for herself and do something wild. Along with her two best friends, Elsie engineers the abduction of Pop Star Jordan Rich, and the girls take him hostage in an attempt to keep him to themselves. Despite their ingenuity in pulling off the caper, they meet with varying degrees of guilt and self-reflection.

Tess Gordon is forced to overcome her fear of sleeping alone in her room when she is taken on an exciting adventure by her collection of thematic dolls.In the late 21st Century, Earth's ecosystem is rapidly approaching the point of complete collapse. In a stroke of luck, an ancient alien ship is discovered on Mars with technology that could allow mankind to relieve the pressures on their homeworld and settle the stars. Many people view this wondrous technology as a gift, but there are those on Earth who wish to see it destroyed as a danger to everyone. When a team of researchers is lost after receiving an ominous alien warning during a prototype test, UNSA Commander Adrian Daniels is forced to participate in a political cover-up and lead his remaining crew into unknowable danger, while struggling against a tide of deadly intrigue. Meanwhile, Sally Yeung, the young prodigy who leads Commander Daniel's research team, must race to uncover the secrets of a vanished alien civilization to not only save the crew, but possibly all of humanity as well.