Children of Obscurity

Julia Karnes was diagnosed with schizophrenia at six years old. Plagued with nightmares of the world ending, hearing voices no one else could hear and seeing visions no one else could see, she struggled to find a place to fit in.

She learned to smile through it...to fake being normal. By sixteen, she was doing a great job blending in?until the shadows rose.

One moment, she was at school, trying to blend in. The next, black tendrils poured from the ground, smothering the sun, swallowing every beautiful thing in their path. The shadows alone appeared harmless, but when the monsters emerged and begin to sing, people walked into the darkness of their embrace and never came back.

Everyone that is except Julia. Somehow, she was immune to their songs.

Fleeing to an isolated patch of land in North Carolina, she thinks she's found safety. But safety in this new world is an illusion. The shadows spread even there and she was about to give up when she found Westin, a deaf boy she went to school with and his younger brother. Westin and his brother become something Julia thought she'd lost long ago, safety, family and home but trust is dangerous in a world where nothing is what it seems.

The truth is worse than the madness she thought she was plagued with. Julia was never sick. She was made?from DNA not of this world. She was built for the shadows. As Julia uncovers the truth about her origins?crafted in a lab, born from another realm?she meets Shaw, a mysterious boy who commands the very shadows that destroyed her world. Together, they may hold the key to ending the terror. But between monstrous science, fanatical cults, and her own insecurities, survival might cost Julia more than she's willing to pay.

What if the monsters of your imagination weren't just illusions? What if they were real and something you were engineered to fight?