In the wake of several near-cataclysmic events, humanity created the Cure, a DNA-altering antidote to death by disease and old age. But all cures come with side effects: a small percentage of the population develops a wide range of powers, some lethal to others and some lethal to the wielder.<br><br>These people are called the Estranged, hunted and shunned, safe only on the Island of Exile. It is here that Kaeva and Eddie meet ... and where they set a prophecy in motion, quite possibly sealing their own demise, and even the end of Exile.

Breaker

A four-year-old stealing from the cookie jar.


Eddie had to agree with his internal self. To anyone watching, that would be exactly what he looked like. Still, he’d touched, and that was cool—if one could consider hair an actual touch. Suddenly, Eddie was back in sixth grade watching one of his classmates cut the hair of the girl who had pissed him off during their lunch break. She had sat in front of him and hadn’t even known he’d done it until she’d stood up and eight inches of long, blonde tresses had fallen around her. So, was this little experiment a fair calculation of what a touch to Kaeva might do? What was hair after all? A filament comprised mainly of protein and melanin, considered dead from the root up. It could be cut off without pain, discarded without consequence. Unless there was movement within the follicle, with the exception of some of the more sensitive areas, a body could be completely unaware its hair had been touched.


Chapter 51