The Awakening

Humanity achieved biological immortality. But at what cost?

The year is 2135. AOL Industries ushered in a new generation of humans who cease to age around their mid-30s and cannot die from natural causes. However, a recent mutation in successive generations of the drug’s recipients has led to psychics: humans with supernatural abilities. State arbitrators, the modern police force of the Republic, are tasked with escorting psychics to rehab centers, or in extreme cases, termination.

Set in the city of Dain, the shining capital of New Earth, The Awakening is the story of a motley crew of individuals who discover a conspiracy that could upend the peace the Republic has experienced since its expansion throughout the galaxy. There are three who have spearheaded this daring operation.

Dakari Minathi was the best arbitrator on the force–until he started asking the wrong questions. Now he is left with the perilous choice of pursuing a case the CDAD would rather leave classified while risking his life (and his family’s lives) in the process.

For Quan, the world was his oyster–until he became a psychic. Now his metamorphosis has shrunken his world from being one of the highest-ranked duelers in the nation to living in crummy apartment complexes to hide out from state arbitrators. That all changes when he uncovers a way to escape New Earth by going to the Gerumandian Academy.

There Quan meets a flight student named Mirabelle Marshall who has compiled a harrowing list of missing students. Perhaps the only thing more frighting than these findings are the questions that remain unanswered: Where are these students going? Why can no one remember them? And who might be next?