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Seventeen‑year‑old Lila keeps two secrets: she can move items simply by looking at them, and she’s secretly loved her brother’s best friend, Alex, for years. A violent mugging exposes her unusual power, forcing her to turn to her brother and Alex—both agents of a clandestine organization called The Unit. They are relentlessly pursuing the men who murdered Lila’s mother five years earlier, and they have now identified their targets. As danger closes in, Lila realizes she isn’t the only one with special abilities. The hunt leads her into a world where not everything is as it seems, and the killer of her mother may be part of a larger supernatural threat.
First publish date: 2011
Genre: Young Adult Fiction/YA Fantasy
Authors: Sarah Alderson
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