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Fourteen years after scientist William Fox implanted a mysterious Medusa geneβ€”granting psychic abilitiesβ€”into four babies, the children have grown into adolescence. Shielded from the world, they are now oblivious to the latent powers that will soon awaken.
First publish date: 2009
Genre: Young Adult Fiction/YA Science Fiction
Authors: Sophie McKenzie
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