Elements of Earth: The Element Trials

Elements of Earth: The Element Trials is a YA Sci-Fi Novel that is heavily influenced by chemistry.

In the late 1950s Nazi Eugenists that escaped to South America kidnapped hundreds of street children from around the world and injected them with unique microbes. These microbes give them traits, the ability to manipulate chemical processes that include the chemical element they have an affinity for. These test subjects are called Elements. The Eugenicists, in a warped Darwinian view, forced the Elements to evolve and adapt their traits in deadly matches called trials to determine which traits should be adapted into their own soldiers.

Over 60 years later, a remarkably unusual girl by the name of Estrellita, recalls memories of being Kira, one of the youths in the trials. She accesses these memories from her mind palace, a place she built in her dreams as her only method of escape. Escape because her father, an American government official has, for her safety, locked her in a secret facility carved into a mountain in Rio. She lives there with only one other person, a holographic AI named Vivian. She tries to prove the connection between Kira and herself, but without the freedom to leave the mountain, she can't even prove Kira existed. She struggles to reconcile her broken memories of Kira into her own identity.

(Warning this story contains mature content including violence, death, combat medicine, descriptions of wounds, foul language, implied sexual content and an attempted sexual assault. The would be assailant is also brutally murdered. Reader discretion is advised.)
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