"Happy Birthday." Those words mean a lot to a little kid. This time, it means something totally different. Max Matthews had a great 10th birthday, but it was the day that followed that truly affected him. Disaster struck as Max's father died in a lab explosion. After losing his father, Max spent the next six years going down a deep hole of depression. But one night, his mom discovered something about Max that caused him to move away from home.
Flown off to the Isle of the Powerful, Max would realized the truth about his family and himself. Along the way he meets Kyle D'abord, a courageous but short tempered teen, and his brother Michael, a homosexual teen who is shuned by his parents. He also meets Danny Hendrix, Michael's boyfriend who has a lot more to offer, and their friend Madigan Neru, the one friend everyone wants, but she doesn't need "everyone."
Max's life takes an even worst turn as he comes across his father's old enemy, Zeux. Max uses his new gifts to fight Zeux, and prevails many of time. Since stepping on the isle, Max has had to his emotions tested but not as rough as finding out his worst fear, and who he really is from Zeux. Max must now decide what he is going to do after something goes completely wrong. He is the only one who could defeat Zeux and save the world. Can he do it, or will everything and everyone he loves perish in the process?
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The aliens kill every human they catch, or in rare cases, put trackers on them to discover their hidden villages. When Natalie is caught in an ambush, she is unexpectedly released. But there is no tracker. The Saursunes have an entirely different motive this time.
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Run. Don't look back.
When Natalie is trapped in an alien ambush, she is unexpectedly released. The first human to ever be let go.
The Saursunes invaded centuries ago, and everyone knows that getting caught is certain death. Natalie is confused but grateful to be alive. As a porter, one of the few humans with the rare ability to teleport between special crystal formations, she must leave the safety of her desert village every day to help gather food.
When other villages increase their raids on the Saursunes' farms, the aliens retaliate by hunting down every human they can find - except Natalie's group. Instead of trying to kill her and those helping her, they bring them food instead.
Is it a trap? Or something else? Natalie isn't sure, but one thing is certain: the Saursunes aren't done with her yet.
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