After the devastating loss of her parents in a freak accident, Alexandra obsesses over the mystery surrounding Teater Higgins, her great-great-grandfather. She searches a deserted farm for Teater's gravestone, but fate intervenes and she plunges into a deep cistern. Trapped, cold, and alone, she finds a warm stone that facilitates her escape and prompts dormant psychic abilities to emerge. Unable to grasp the full implications of this new transformation, mysterious Jediah Saffle draws her into a shimmering orb, exposes her to near-sensory overload, and, without speaking, tells her she is a...

H. H. Laura's Sensates are born with a recessive extrasensory gene. Most go unnoticed, oftentimes exhibiting deja vu occurrences throughout their lifetimes. An elite few who possess this gene and display a high moral code are selected to enter the realm of Sensates, who have existed for over two thousand years. Heartseed is the story of a benevolent race of people with telekinetic, teleportation, and astral-projection capabilities, who have chosen a life a secrecy so their powers are not used by governments to change the course of human history. Can a few hundred Sensates fend off the...