Book Description

Dell Chase is fiercely eager to graduate high school and stride out into the world, finally achieving freedom from her dull country town and overbearing guardian. Life is good, and it's about to get even better.Everything seems on track until a sinister new teacher arrives at her school under suspicious circumstances, trailed by an equally mysterious new student. Both seem to have a strange effect on her, and she finds herself transforming into something that terrifies her.Dell finds herself utterly lost in a world buried deeply under the surface of the most powerful institution on Earth. With her best friend, James, leading her on, she is drawn into a conflict almost as old as time itself. Nothing and no one is what they seem, Dell most of all. Nameless dangers stalk her every move, and when one of them kidnaps James, she must quickly learn who to trust and, most importantly, how to trust herself and the formidable new power she holds. Determined to rescue him, Dell sets herself on a path fraught with unutterable danger, unthinkable joy, and highly questionable strangers. A path that she must follow, to whatever horror it leads, if she is ever to discover what she really is, and who she wishes to be.The most important discovery one can make is oneself.