Ascended Trilogy - Book 1

In a world far in the future, when the time of our present day has been all but forgotten, darkness is stirring in a place called Eryth . . . .

In the advanced society of the nation Burkundia, the lives of normal humans are prosperous. For the Ascended Ones, a group of humans who have received strange and inexplicable abilities, life is bleak. The Tainted, as humans like to call them, are spurned, attacked, ridiculed, and forced into slavery. Governments and countries alike are taught to fear them by their leaders, the mysterious and seemingly ageless Untouched.

Mikhael Sokolyov is a new Ascended, who has been battling for the past year of his life to hide his abilities after he experienced his Ascension. One day a group of B.C.A.F. soldiers tears apart his home and arrests his little brother Jakob, whose mysterious abilities even Mikhael struggles to understand. Furious and frantic to save his only family, Mikhael journeys to the massive capital of his nation to find his brother. But the darkness is lurking, and soon Mikhael will be unable to escape the fate that awaits him . . . .

Theo Burnside is a discontented B.C.A.F soldier with a dangerous secret of his own. He joined the B.C.A.F. to learn more about how to fix his broken nation, but only discovers how deep its corrupted roots truly run. What's worse, every day it becomes harder for Theo to conceal his secret. As tensions run high, Theo's path to find justice will lead him to a place he never could have imagined . . . .

Katriya Nosokova struggles to find her place in the world, born into a position she doesn't want and refuses to accept. Each night she stalks the streets as a Freelancer, secretly liberating indentured or captive Ascended. Each night she risks her safety as her family comes closer and closer to discovering her secret. Little does she know that freeing just one more Ascended might lead to an adventure not even she could dream up . . . .