- Contains Enemies to Lovers arc
- high school
-supernatural, sci-fi
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In the chaos of high school, Sierra thought her biggest challenges would be keeping her demanding parents happy and surviving the endless school drama. But everything changes when she discovers a bizarre and unsettling superpower: the ability to communicate with the dead. Not just any dead, though-animals. The food on her plate, roadkill on the street, even long-forgotten remains.
At first, it seems useless, a cruel joke by the gods. But as Sierra delves deeper into the strange, eerie mysteries surrounding her life, she realizes her so-called gift is just the beginning. Old family secrets start to unravel, and it becomes clear her parents have been hiding more than she ever imagined. Even worse, she's not as alone in her curse as she thought. Others like her exist, people she never expected, hiding powers.
With high school drama colliding with a supernatural world she barely understands, Sierra must untangle the threads of betrayal, fear, and hidden truths. Because in her world, even the dead have stories to tell, and some secrets refuse to stay buried. Her strange ability isn't the end of the mystery-it's only the start.
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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