Lost

In the final days of WWI, a meteor crashed into Earth, releasing a mist that forever changed the DNA of all exposed.  One hundred years later, humanity is divided between Norms, and Caelians, whose mutated DNA awakened dormant Talents. Hated by many Norms who are jealous of their powerful Talents, Caelians strive to find safety in an often-hostile world. This is Sadie’s world. Orphaned at birth, Sadie is the only Caelian at St. Vincent’s without a Talent.  Her already lonely life at the orphanage is shattered when her boyfriend is murdered- the victim of an anti-Caelian hate crime. Struggling to find her place in the world, Sadie meets Kian, a fellow Caelian whose very presence makes her feel strangely alive. As Sadie begins to uncover the secrets of her past, her rare latent Talent is exposed and she finds herself on the run with Kian and her friends, hunted by a dangerous egomaniac determined to use her power to establish Caelian dominance. Sadie faces a choice: hide and stay lost, or accept her new reality and fight. The debut series from Donnielle Tyner, The Caelian Cycle is a new addition to the young adult action science fiction genre, following in the tradition of Bella Forrest, Dima Zales, Amy A. Bartol, and Beth Revis.