A beautiful refuge. A brilliant villain. A promise designed to trap.
Kendle thought the Borough, a research facility for Wild-born telepaths and psychokinetics, was a safe haven. With three teenage Wilds in tow, she believes the estate's home-like serenity promises safety, dignity, and control.
But the Borough's luxury masks something sharper. The director of the facility, Indira, pushes the Wilds toward increasingly invasive and dangerous experiments. Each assessment is framed as necessary, each risk justified as progress.
As the Wilds' abilities grow, so does the fear around them. Outside the Borough, riots spread. Inside, ethics splinter.
The doors to the Borough close around them. Kendle's choices vanish. And Stephen, the Bred she loves, remains bound to her former home, the Warehouse-his loyalty stretched thin by distance, secrecy, and a world determined to keep them apart.
Each choice brings Kendle and her students into more danger, and Kendle must decide what their protection will cost.
Because some cages don't need locks-only the promise of safety.
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Theresa Halvorsen has never met a profanity she hasn't enjoyed. She's generally overly caffeinated and at times, wine soaked. She's the author of both nonfiction and speculative fiction works and wonders what sleep is. When she's not writing or podcasting at Semi-Sages of the Pages she's commuting through San Diego traffic to her healthcare position. In whatever free time is left, Theresa enjoys board games, geeky conventions, and reading. She loves meeting and assisting other writers, and being a Beta reader is a particular joy. Her life goal is to give "Oh-My-Gosh-This-Book-Is-So-Good" happiness to her readers. She lives in Temecula with her amazing and supportive husband, on occasion, her college age twins and the pets they'd promised to care for. Find her at www.theresaHauthor.com and on Twitter and Facebook.