"Sometimes when things are falling apart they may actually be falling into place." - Anonymous.
"Life isn't just sunshine and rainbows." Cassandra Williams knows it better than most people. Sure she once had everything a typical teenager could ask for, a loving pair of parents, status, money, looks and an annoying but lovable older brother to go along with it.
But when a horrible accident takes her brother's life away and turns her life upside down quite literally, Cassy is shattered to her core. Her once picture perfect life was now a broken mess. Her parents who fussed over her when she got the slightest cold now ignored her like she doesn't exist. Completely engrossing themselves in work they chose to forget their remaining child who was attending mental health sessions to cope with the trauma and depression.
Cassy was still very rich and to others she had gotten over the incident and living a luxurious, happy life. But to Cassy it's all a facade. And the sad thing about facade is that there is always something beyond. Behind Cassy's mask is a past that she is unable to let go and in her mind the accident is fresh as ever. Like a wound that refuses to heal, it stings and burns her, haunting her day and night with the memories of that fateful day.
The only thing that provides her momentarily relief is fighting. Yes she is a street fighter and a damn good one too. Trained under her uncle's supervision, she is an experienced MMA fighter and the champion of the illegal streets of NY. She is Silent Death (S.D), the mysterious fighter whose identity is a secret. In the ring she is the undefeated champion but in her high school she is the awkward, bullied red head who reds more then she breathes.
But behind those glasses and fake stutter is not the undefeated champion but a broken teenager who is desperate to numb her emotional pain. All she needs is someone to be simply there for her. To catch her if she fell. To piece her broken self together. To protect her from herself. Just make her feel that she isn't alone.
Can someone save her before her demons pull her below the surface? How long can Cassy swim in the troubled waters of life? Can she be the person she was once because gone is the girl who used to believe in happy endings and love. Gone is the girl who who had life in her eyes and color in her skin.
Ace stone is the soon-to-be mafia king with the reputation of a cold hearted killer. Ruthless, merciless, savage are the adjectives he is described by. His mere shadow is enough to make people shake in their shoes and run as fast as they can in the opposite direction. Yet no one knows the 18 year old mafia king's real identity.
To them he is a black clad enigma with murder in his eyes and power in his eyes by the name of "Carl" whose face none had seen. Only Ace's close friends and father know that they both are in fact the same.
What they don't know is that he is struggling against a past that that threatens to engulf him whole. That behind the facade of being a ruthless beast is a broken boy with scars on his soul. That he never moved on from the death and betrayal of two of his most loved ones. That he is stuck in an abyss of darkness searching for light. He is captured in his own head searching for escape. He is the result of what his society and past forced him to be.
All he needs is someone who is gentle unlike the harsh realities he has been exposed to.Someone who would hold him if he broke down. Someone who is their to listen and not judge. Someone who will guide him out of darkness and pickup his scattered pieces.
Can someone bring him back or is it too late? Can he be changed for the good?
When Ace is sent to spy on the headquarters of a rival gang in NY he doesn't expect to get meddled in the life of a certain red haired black eyed fighter who turns out to be the only one who defeated the notorious gang leader in a fight, unfortunately capturing his attention.
Watch as Cassy and Ace's lives get twisted together to form a beautiful disaster. Add in the hassle of protecting identities and the bickering wars between the duo and you get : who knows what?
Danger will lurk in every shadow and enemies on every bend of the road Cassy and Ace are riding. Guns will be fired, Bodies will fly, hearts will be torn open and past would recruit in it's worst form.
Will Cassy and Ace ever reach their safe heaven or will it be too much for them? Will they continue to walk no matter how many times they were pushed down or would they contemplate on giving up?
To know, read "The Nerdy Fighter."