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

“It’s helping,” Isolde said. She pointed at the bottom layer of her pyramid and then continued building. “With a strong heart to hold the rest up, see? Oberon says that there is no muscle in the human body that can’t be made stronger with exercise and focus. Even Estrangement.”


Except Estrangement isn’t a muscle, sweetheart. Besides, tell that theory to the hundreds of thousands of paraplegics that existed before the Cure.“So how does that work?”


Isolde brushed her hair out of her face and adjusted one of the blocks with the care of a surgeon but the awkwardness of a child. “You just use it.”


Eddie frowned. “So he makes you make fire?”


“The Estrangement makes me make fire,” Isolde corrected. “Oberon makes me learn to control it.”


Eddie silently scoffed. That couldn’t be working, could it? If the effects of Estrangement were caused by a sudden reaction of the mind, then how did one control the body’s response—


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