Ataxia
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My name is Des.
And I'm one of the most dangerous people on the planet.
I can save the world.
Or destroy it.
And the problem is, I don't know if it's my choice.
Destine Whiston (Des) is your average teen. She hates reading and homework and loves to play board games with her little sister and her adopted father, Andy, and go out for ice cream. But until one special morning ... she is no longer normal anymore.
Des finds out she is an ataxia, a person with abnormal superhuman abilities. She is thrust into a world of superpowers where she has to stay hidden away from the outside world and a corrupt government that wants her dead. She is torn away from her home and into a new world that she is barely beginning to process.
And just when she is getting used to her new normal ... she is told she is far from normal. She is the most powerful being who ever lived, and her purpose is to destroy the world.
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