"The first time he sees her is out in the school courtyard, cigarette smoke billowing from her nostrils like a furious dragon. He is surprised at himself for noticing her. He doesn't normally notice people, he observes them..." AU. Violate.

After a painful breakup Violet Harmon decides to move out of LA. In need of a quiet place to write her second novel and mend her heart she settles on a small cottage in a tiny town in Maine. With tourist season over and the chill of autumn setting in she believes it will be the perfect sanctuary to be alone. She'll soon learn neither of which is true.

Tate is a young bartender with a sketchy past, after a recent stint in prison he has vowed to turn his life around until one fateful night he falls hard for a beautiful girl who's intentions may not be as innocent as they seem. AU, Tate/Violet

The prisoner of a windowless cell- and he's consuming every thought in my head." Violet Harmon is sent to Briarcliff, after a brutal suicide attempt, where she meets Tate Langdon, a school shooter, who proves to be much more interesting than she imagined.

It's modern day, and Violet Harmon finds herself face to face with a killer- who decides that she is definitely worth saving.

Somehow she knew she couldn't forget the boy behind the window.

What if Violet had met Tate when she was a little girl? Could this change both of their doomed futures? AU Violate Story.

In an alternate reality where Boston-born Violet Harmon transfers to Westfield and meets loner boy Tate Langdon in 1994, their junior year, it's pretty obvious that things will work out different. But just how different will things be?