"It's not as mystical as it sounds."
Ivy Larken is twenty-four, and so far, her life has been normal, sometimes verging on mundane. She considers herself to be fairly normal as well, and decided a long time ago that the strange occurrences in her life can be chalked up to simple coincidence, and nothing more. When Ivy uproots from her small Maine hometown and moves to the big city, she hopes to escape the past she left behind in Maine, find a decent job and some new friends, and maybe, eventually, unpack.
But just as Ivy begins her new life, she becomes plagued by unsettling and frightening visions. She can't explain them, but soon, she meets people who can. Through sheer chance, Ivy is thrust into a world she never knew existed, but of which she has always been a part. A world of Seers, who possess the power to receive and decipher visions from the past, the present, and the future. The world of Seers, Ivy soon realizes, is out of balance. Her new friends wish only to see and understand their visions, to make some sense of the world, but there are those who yearn for more. These others have learned new, darker powers, and aim to seize political and social influence through their abilities. Before she can unpack a single box, Ivy finds herself caught up in a fight against this corruption.
Meanwhile, a young man named Cian is searching desperately... first for his identity, then for the truth about the fate of his family, and finally, for redemption and freedom from the guilt of his past. Cian's journey intersects with Ivy's, plunging them both into danger, and uncovering secrets they were never meant to know.
10 years into the future four sisters discover they have unusual super powers. While reading the journals of their recently deceased mother she supernaturally speaks to them from the past. (Mary died suddenly due to a newly released hyper-virus by The Powers That Be.) The young women discover not only had their mother been quenching their powers since they were babies but through her journals is now urging them to to do the exact opposite. "Rise up! *You were born for such a time as this." However the recent abandonment by their mother in death and their father in grief has left them struggling as they've been thrust into adulthood overnight. The world desperately needs them. Will they stop bickering and worrying about boys, fashion and proms long enough to save the day?
*Esther 4:4
Gifts:
Baby in the corner Beth (19) has the ability to draw her heart's desires. She thinks it's only while using her big box of 64 crayons. She doesn't realize the power is in her mind's eye and not her writing implements.
Jo (20) can teleport. Of course she doesn't always stick her landings. At first her landings are as messy as is her life. She's lost her mother, her family home, her faith and now thinks she may be losing her mind.
Supercilious self-absorbed Amy (17) has the uncanny ability to get others to do what she wants. She says, ever so sweetly, "I'd prefer..." Dad always called it "wrapping others around her little finger syndrome." If she wanted she could ask a perfect stranger to hand over his car keys and he'd have to oblige.
The oldest sister Meg (21) has dreams and visions about the world's near future. She's also very intuitive. Perhaps if she were better at seeing her own future maybe her personal life wouldn't be in shambles?