Chapter 1

The soft spoken with powerful ideas
The loyal with confused allegiances
The visionary that can't see
The lighthearted with a heavy secret
And then there's Lyra Lockwood who is told she's nothing and believes it. That is until she's whisked away to Aliquid, a school for gifted, powerful children, where it all finally fits together. Her loneliness, her differences and the missing memory of one night. After being an outcast for so long and now having something to live for, her old life may appear to be a darkness she doesn't want to face. When a devastating realization forces Lyra to look closer at Aliquid, she discovers that the threat might not be the outside world, it might be right down the hall.