She shouldn't be here. Boots pounded against the corridor tiles. Orders echoed-closer with every second. He didn't move. He stood in front of her, solid and calm, his frame blocking the door like a shield. One hand hovered near his weapon. The other reached back, finding her hand in the dark. "You trust me?" he asked, voice low and rough with something unspoken. Her fingers curled into his. She nodded, barely breathing. He turned slightly-just enough to see her. His eyes found hers in the dim light, and for a moment, everything else fell away. The chaos, the rules, the danger. It was just the weight of his gaze, steady and searching, as if trying to memorize her. "Then stay quiet," he said, softer now. "I won't let them touch you." ⸻ They told her she didn't belong. They were right. After a global collapse, the world rebuilt under one banner: U.N.I.-a force forged for peace, enforced by power. Behind the walls of Knight Academy, only the strongest survive. Cadets rise. Systems evolve. And threats are erased before they even form. She's grieving. Outranked. Unwanted. But something about her doesn't add up. As elite shadows begin to stir and truths long buried rise to the surface, one girl finds herself at the heart of a war no one is ready for. And she was never supposed to be here.

**Super rough draft** This book chronicles the journey of seven eighteen year-old teens in futuristic earth. After nearly depleting their natural resources, human kind are forced to live in domes, created by a new world order U.N.I., protecting them from the outside wastelands of earth but that's not all plaguing the earth as seven teenagers find out. Lel Konn, Cero Smith, Roy Mako, Aries Gordon, Barbella Wojiack, Eddric Stage and Preston Stage where all tracking another lead in the anomaly case, fearing to call for help, the seven eighteen-year old teenagers rushed down to find what had just crashed outside their dome not knowing their lives would forever be altered. Now different from the world, can the gang control their new found abilities, save the world and stop the threat that has come from the past to haunt them. You'll just have to wait and read in the new Scifi adventure book, Icons. This story is the first draft and will contain grammatical errors and typos. I apologize in advance and hope you can see past them to the story beneath. Enjoy! Highest scifi ranking: #77 Icons: Meta Humans (Book 1) Copyright 2015 by _THECREATOR_

Delaney Escott lives in a world where popularity reigns supreme. If you want to be noticed, social status is everything. The government is run by the Superiors: a very exclusive group of individuals who are virtually flawless. They are smarter than us and stronger than us, and to join their ranks is the highest honor. The Superiors pay an annual visit to the top schools in the nation and evaluate the students, choosing one boy and one girl - the most Popular in the school - to go the Capitol and train for Superiority. Delaney thinks that she's the only one indifferent to (and perhaps even suspicious of) the Superiors, until Caleb Payne, the most popular boy in school, approaches her with a request. He has a task for her, one that he believes she is uniquely capable of completing. And as she helps him, Delaney discovers that the government is hiding many secrets - and that the truth of the Superiors is far from what people believe it to be. [Watty Awards 2012 Winner, Science-Fiction: On the Rise]