Stolen Darkness - Book 1 in the Lands of Temenos series

"When it's getting late.
and I am getting tired
The Darkness falls in,
and rises inside me

When the distractions are gone
My confidence disappears with them
The silence is fading in
And Chaos rises inside me

When I lay down my head
and slowly drift away
Doubt and Losses will visit
and Fear rises inside me

When the memories are closing in
Terror surrounds me
And I will have to fight till the break of dawn
against the Demons inside me

When the night falls
It's not the dark outside that scares me
It's being alone with my thoughts
and the Darkness inside me..."
-Just Patty

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There is a world after ours fell, the golden world, in which powers were developed in few lucky persons. Over time the gifted have died, and their population has dwindled. In hopes to revive the numbers of power wielding citizens, all who attend the Academy, where all power-wielding high school students attend, must be married by the time they graduate. Although the peace has held and the culture regrown, after anarchy and six centuries of rebuilding the social standards aren't as they were.

Everyone has a hidden secret, some more devious than others. When some are targeted with hidden truths, how desperate will they become to keep them covered? Just how far will they go.
In a desperate play to hide the most monstrous parts of their past, they might just find something even more monstrous.

Students are dyeing, the population of the gifted are falling, and they're all still lying...

Power isn't gifted in fairness and light, it's stolen in the deepest, darkest part of the night.