Tempest by C.J. Campbell, Eighteen-year-old Lexi has found that after spending a lifetime evading capture for a genetic gift of a bulletproof immunity and horrendous disfigurement she possesses, how much freedom is a luxury. Lexi is being hunted by a secret organization, as well as something else that is much darker. Longing to enjoy life before it's too late, Lexi leaves the cocoon her protective parents created, and signs up for an art class at her local college. It is there that she befriends Connor, who is confined to a wheelchair and they become close friends that are able to share each other's secrets. It is when by chance, Lexi meets Connor's foster brother Killian and everything changes. Killian has the same mysterious secret within his blood. Their fateful meeting sets of a chain of catastrophic events that expose the truth that Lexi is a celestial queen of a bygone race, Connor is the last royal heir, and Killian is a half-breed abomination hated for his very existence. Paperback, 320 pages.
