Publisher's Synopsis
The last thing the hyper-advanced Human Confederation expected to encounter on Darius - a distant colony world - was actual magic, inexplicable feats that the most advanced technology could not duplicate. The Confederation discovered that the human settlers had tapped into an inexplicable piece of alien technology that granted supernatural powers. The machine was accidentally destroyed leaving behind a number of children with strange and often frightening powers of their own. That was seventeen years ago. Since then, the Darius Children have been raised and studied on Clarke, an isolated world. Their powers appear simplistic yet dangerous. Now old enough to leave, a sociopath strikes and kidnaps one of them, intending to sell her to the highest bidder. Another must go in pursuit …
