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Before Ruby turned 10, an outbreak of a diease called Idiopathic Adolescent Acute Neurodegeneration or IAAN for short started killing off children from anywhere usually between 8 and 14 years old. Children all over the country started dying from this diease, killing nearly 98% of all kids. Those children who were lucky enough to survive, didn't escape completely unscathed. They all began to manifest some sort of “psi”ability. Ruby, our main protagonist, wakes up on her tenth birthday but realized that something was wrong. When she tried talking to her mother, she got locked in the garage and was taken away by people who she believed were police officers. She spent a day locked in an old warehouse with many other kids and was later taken to a "rehabilitation camp" called Thurmond. These "camps" told parents that were going to cure the children of their abilities, making them safe to return to their lives and families.The reality is that these camps are a place for the government to perform testing on the kids, while creating a labor camp environment teeming with physical and mental abuse.

The first thing that happens when they arrive at their camp, is that they are sorted by what their abilities are, and assigned a color. Blues can control objects, Yellows can create and conduct electricity and Green’s have heightened intelligence. Then there are the Red’s and Orange’s. The dangerous ones. Red’s can set things on fire with their minds, and Oranges can slip into your brain see your memories and control your thoughts. They can make you do whatever they want you too. Ruby has been at camp for six years. She has no knowledge of what has happened to the country in the years she has been there, she only knows that she has to do exactly what she is told to survive. She has to keep her secret. No one can know what she truly is, or else they could get hurt. She needed to protect them more than herself. When an anti-government organization called The Children’s League breaks her out of Thurmond, she soon realizes that not everything is as it seems. The world is a lot more complicated than she thought it was, and she quickly finds herself on the run with another group of kids who have managed to escape from their own camp.

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