She's not your average teenager...She starts fires with her mind Sixteen-year-old Sable Mosley thinks her life is over when her parents send her to a psychiatric hospital, but that's only the beginning. She's isn't the only person there who has freaky powers. There is a whole race of people classified by the government as The Diseased-they can see the future, create air shields, or even drain the life out of others. Then she escapes with the breathtakingly-handsome Brandon Harper, and her very existence is threatened. A secret government agency is hunting down people like Brandon, and now...

Sable Mosley is what the government calls Diseased-she starts fires with her mind-and their assassins hunt her relentlessly... When Sable and her friends, who also have supernatural abilities, find themselves shipwrecked, it seems like all there is left to do is to wait for the Diseased Affairs and Operations to find and kill them. Then a ghost from the past comes to their aid. However, Sable and her friends don't stay safe for long. The DAO captures them, demanding to know what the Bond is. Sable thinks it has something to do with her and Brandon, but she doesn't know exactly what. Can she...