Julissa Jennings has had a rather usual life - going to school, a loving mother and father, and dreams. She has her talents too, and knitting is one of her favorites to show off. Is it any wonder she gets a job at a yarn shop, helping teach others to knit? Add a dead grandmother, a shared passion, and a new comer to the knitting scene, and well...it's first stitch chaos as a sniper sticks his nose into the equation. ..

Eighteen years can go by in a blink of an eye, especially for Tiana Jackson. But little does she know her whole life is about to revolve around that little number. It's eighteen days to Tiana's nineteenth birthday, November 2nd, 2013. Her life has gone well for a teenager from a small town. She has a few friends, and a guy friend (no way in a relationship yet though). Then October 16th rolls around. Her life comes to a crashing halt. Secrets are revealed that were meant to have been revealed a long time ago, friends are distrusted, and Tiana finds herself caught up in a deadly game of cat and mouse to save Earth before it's destroyed. And she only has eighteen d ..