I always knew I was different from others. School came way easily, but friends did not. My sister Kadrin and I were the worst twins ever. The identical stopped at our physical characteristics. But that aside, I had my best friend, Charlie, and I was my conspiracy theorist Dad's favorite. My life wasn't bad and my future seemed promising . . . until the Reform. Following 6th grade graduation, the State took over our guardianship and our education, taking us from the only homes we'd ever known, in order to provide us with a distraction-free environment . . . and control every inch of our lives....

Would you pay a million dollars for a glimpse of the future at any time of your choosing? Could you handle it if you did? Dr. Paul Stevens is someone you've probably never even heard of, story of his life. He dreamed of creating big change as a Psychologist, but regression and invisibility are the marker of his life. The new therapy keeps everyone coming back, instead of healing them, but the Board keeps rejecting all his theories for effective therapy. He's washed up, completely alone, horribly insignificant, and this is not how he'd imagined his future would go, so he decides to take his...

Cat, here, but you can call me Catina. Boy, do I have a story to tell you. I'm 16 now. I don't know if I'll make it to 17, now that I went from being the very model of a new man-made era of Intelligent Design with the highest global IQ for ages 12-18, to top priority on the Modules' to-kill list. The tests keep saying I have a personality glitch, regardless of my intelligence, and none of their techniques work on me. I'm unpredictable and I can't be controlled. State recruiters came when we were 12 to take my twin sister and me from our homes and take over our guardianship. Following Junior...