They gave power a name. Then they decided who deserved it.
In Aurelia, being born without the Meredial gene means you don’t matter.
Sixteen-year-old Bobby is Fallow, born without the gene that grants Averals their privilege and, for a rare few, extraordinary powers. At Northwall Academy, he has one rule for survival: remain invisible.
Raven has the opposite problem. She is Averal, gifted with the ability to read what people want and how they feel. She’s spent her life trying to escape the very identity Bobby has been taught makes her superior.
Then Northwall students come under attack, and Bobby can’t stay invisible anymore.
The Council insists an outside enemy is responsible. Bobby, Raven, and their friends aren’t so sure, especially when Bobby begins having visions no Fallow should be capable of having. The deeper they dig, the harder it becomes to believe the Council's version of events.
In a society built on the certainty that power belongs to the right bloodlines, what if the most dangerous secret is Bobby himself?
And how far will those in power go to keep the truth buried?
