Nature Hunters Academy

Tara Thompson cannot be injured. Since the night her parents died in a tragic accident, she hasn't felt pain of any kind, not so much as a papercut. Luckily, a loving foster mom and an unwanted best friend stepped in to speed up the process. Despite Tara's best efforts, her new BFF, Shelly Smith, just wouldn't go away. By their senior year, the girls were thick as thieves and would probably become thieves if Shelly had anything to say about their future. Thankfully, fate intervenes in the form of a high school recruiter, Elias Creed, who works for a mysterious geological testing company. Then Elias opens his mouth and Tara laments the fact that the first guy she's ever been seriously attracted to . . . is a complete and utter butthead. Little do they know it's not a company at all. It's an academy for those gifted with elemental powers and she's already been enrolled. And Elias isn't Tara's only suitor. The hottest guy in school-Tucker Adams-has been asking Tara out for the past three years and each time she's shot him down. But when Elias and Tucker both warn Tara the other is dangerous, she doesn't know who to believe. When the truth is finally revealed, Tara finds out both men know more about her past than she does, including what caused the accident that took her parents' lives. Contains mature themes.

Tara Thompson is an elementalist, given the powers of earth when her parents were murdered. Now that she knows about the supernatural world around her, she has been recruited to join other earth elementals at Terra Academy, one of the four schools that train young elementalists to battle against dark elemental spirits and their acolytes. In addition to discovering the supernatural world, Tara has learned that she and Elias'-Mr. Tall, Dark, and British and an earth elementalist himself-are soul bonded, which means they hold a special place in the elemental world. Unfortunately, Tara doesn't have time to dwell on what this means because her best friend, Shelly Smith, has been trapped in the underworld by a crazed fire elemental. The only person who can help her is, Ra Nasir, a fire elementalist from Crimson Academy and one of Elias's best friends. Meanwhile, Shelly will learn that burning in hell is the least of her worries because Osiris, the lord of the underworld wants her to rule hell by his side. She will do whatever it takes, even sacrifice her heart to the handsome Ra, to escape from Osiris's clutches. But will Ra get to her in time? Contains mature themes.

Gabby Gellar is a fire elementalist with an attitude. Gabby knows she could never be good enough to be anyone's girlfriend, much less someone's soulbonded. So why does the thought of a certain water elementalist have her out of bed well past midnight, pacing and cursing, trying to deny the part of her that's silently calling to him, reaching for his magic, thirsting for it like a dying man in the desert. Dammit! To Liam Nash, life is merely a joke, something to laugh at and enjoy. An endless stream of amusements made even more amusing by the water magic he uses to manipulate the world around him. Liam never thought he'd actually have a soulbounded. He was content to be unattached, a flirt, a perpetual bachelor . . . but that was before he met Gabby. With half of the royal elementalists imprisoned in the underworld, the earth's climate has been thrown into chaos. If the light elementalists have any hope of rescuing the planet from the dark forces seeking to destroy it, the elemental academies will have to work together. Could the bond between Liam and Gabby be the very thing needed to rally the forces of light to victory? Contains mature themes.