AT THE END OF AN ERA. THE NEW DAWN BEGINS Leaving college is an easy choice for Maia Fuentes. With no siblings and a dead war hero father, stepping away to be alongside her sick mother is a no-brainer. But her summer full of job applications and hospital visits comes to a rough start when she meets the charismatic, yet annoying, Jules Devereaux, and learns of the Gifted— a race of ability-wielding people. Turns out she's one of them. When the Legion seeks Maia to join their effort against those threatening the secrecy of their kind, she’s taken to a small desert town to live among others like her, training and waiting for the day the twenty-five-year ceasefire between the Legion and the Elite inevitably comes to an end. With the threat of civil war on the horizon, the untold secrets of the past begin to unravel. But for Maia, learning the truth of her place within the Legion and the Gifted may be far deadlier than the lies…