Everyone is hiding from something; a secret, a lie. Mine just happens to be a curse, one bestowed upon me before my first birthday; a curse that says I'm supposed to die before I turn sixteen. But that isn't going to happen, because I have a plan. You see, it's impossible to prick your finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel if you're locked in a cell.

Cassidy Taylor is definitely no ordinary girl. Being a 16 year old teenager is hard enough as it is, without the burden of being an elemental. As her powers grow stronger she finds it harder and harder to control and keep her element a secret. Suspicions start to grow at school when Cassie finds she isn't the only one with hidden talents... But everything changes when an evil force draws near; a secret group of skilled assassins and scientists want to create the unthinkable. By tracking and hunting down the elementals to near extinction, Cassie and a few others are the only ones left. How can she fight for survival when she doesn't even know what she is? But her survival isn't the only thing that's at stake... Keep your eyes open, you never know what evil is lurking in the shadows...

The soft spoken with powerful ideas The loyal with confused allegiances The visionary that can't see The lighthearted with a heavy secret And then there's Lyra Lockwood who is told she's nothing and believes it. That is until she's whisked away to Aliquid, a school for gifted, powerful children, where it all finally fits together. Her loneliness, her differences and the missing memory of one night. After being an outcast for so long and now having something to live for, her old life may appear to be a darkness she doesn't want to face. When a devastating realization forces Lyra to look closer at Aliquid, she discovers that the threat might not be the outside world, it might be right down the hall.

My name is Tide. I'd love to say hi and all, but if I tell you my location two very bad things could happen. First, someone who isn't really on my list of favorite people might find the information. Then, they would hunt us down and try to use our powers to take over the world and other maniacal things. Yeah, not so fun. However, I'd like it if people knew how things really happened. You may see things on the news, and they may sound bad, but trust me, this is the real story. Because I'm an Elemental. And somebody needs to set the record straight.* [Action #101] [Fantasy #2] :: cover credit goes to the lovely ATXNNA :: *heyo so this book is pretty old, some (a lot of) spelling mistakes, some (a lot of) plot holes, but if you're looking for some fast paced action and some sarcasm and some cliche romance you should honestly just go to the second book but yeah, this has got that, just with, you know, the glaring faults in the story line. Just a warning.

Hey, it's me again. Yes, Tide, the one and only Double Elemental. Even among the freaks I'm a freak. How fun. But enough about that. I'm a little busy trying to save the world from a genocidal woman who may or may not still be alive. I'm not entirely sure. So, because I have an unfortunate sense of morality, I am leaving the the peaceful beaches of Hawaii to travel to Russia and save the world from the above mentioned genocidal woman. Yay me. (Sequel to The Elementals) [Fantasy #5]