Ten years ago, the world changed. A mysterious neurological virus swept across the planet, killing millions of children and leaving others with impossible abilities. While adults survived, the children who remained became something the world feared. The government called them dangerous. They called them weapons. So they built containment centers, took them from their families, and erased their identities one by one. Seventeen-year-old Stella Cross has spent most of her life behind the walls of Blackridge Containment Center. Small, quiet, and underestimated, she has survived by hiding the truth about herself—including the ability the government has been searching for. Because Stella isn’t just another powered child. She’s something the world has never seen before. When the Phoenix Resistance launches a daring attack to free the prisoners of Blackridge, Stella finally escapes the only home she’s ever known. But freedom comes with a price. The government will stop at nothing to recapture her, and the Resistance needs answers about the mysterious power hidden inside her. As Stella joins a growing rebellion of survivors, scavengers, and runaway children, she discovers that she may be the key to uniting a generation that was taught they were monsters. With the help of Kade Mercer, a powerful Resistance leader carrying the weight of everyone he’s failed to save, and Elias Ward, a former government weapon fighting to reclaim his own identity, Stella must decide what she wants her power to become. A weapon. A symbol. Or a chance for a future where children like her are no longer hunted. Because the government spent ten years trying to break them. They forgot one thing. The children they feared are the ones who survived. The revolution has begun.