" But then my sister did something she never did in the middle of a fight, she took a step back, then another. She was in pain. I knew this not because I felt it but because at that moment, she keeled over her hands clutching her stomach. Her gaze frantically searched the crowd of eager students that had formed. Her eyes locked with mine. "Tasha" She croaked. Her hand reaching towards me. And suddenly a surge of power wrapped itself around her. I felt it, waves of energy flowing through her veins like an electric current. It's happening. ..."
Seven teenagers, each born with extraordinary powers, are the result of a top-secret government experiment, altered at the genetic level before they even existed. Their parents, fully aware of the experiment, agreed to be part of it-engineered to create weapons, assets for a shadowy agenda.
Now the government has come to collect.
When their existence is exposed, the teens are forced to go on the run, hunted by the very agency that made them. With nowhere safe and no one to trust, they must rely on each other to survive a world that sees them as property, not people. But running isn't easy when their powers are growing, their past is catching up, and the weight of who they are is heavier than ever.
They didn't ask for this life.
But now, they have to fight for it.
A dystopian young adult novel involving romance, secret experiments on human subjects, and a group of teenagers' will to survive.
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All Evita Creedy, 17, wants is to finish her degree and be accepted for a prestigious job with the city's Department of Energy. On the way to take her placement test she sees a man take a gun out of his bag. Panicked, she reaches into her purse for her phone to call 911.
Instead she takes out a gun.
She doesn't know where it came from or how it got there, but when the man turns his gun on her she shoots him. It would be easy for Evita to forget about where the gun came from and let her life return to normal, but its mysterious appearance won't stop nagging at her. When Evita starts asking questions Evelyn Sheer, the head of the city's Department of Energy, takes her captive and places her in a secret, underground research facility.
Evelyn Sheer and the researchers are trying to create a genetic modification that enables humans to photosynthesize. Once in the facility, Evita is tagged as a test subject and loses all say over what happens to her body. She has to escape. By the time she comes up with a plan there is only one problem.
Evita isn't ready to leave.