Transmutation of species and survival of the fittest. Charles Darwin was on to something.Holland Forbes is special. She's a Breaker. Someone who possesses the gift of Telepathy, Telekinesis or Teleportation, though nobody's manifested that last ability in a very long time. She's a Telepath, and everything she's studied in school has been in preparation for a job in a Palmer Biotech Institute facility.At the start of her junior year, she moves to the Orion Academy Compound, the remote section of campus designed to teach kids like her to control their abilities. She's an overachiever, so this should be a piece of cake. Holland quickly learns it won't be as easy as she thought. The training officers take pleasure in torturing the recruits, she's separated from her family, and there's something weird going on with her gift. As she fights to earn a coveted internship position; new friendships are formed, others end and she begins to suspect that there are secrets housed at Orion Headquarters that could put them all in danger...