Lost Defiants

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If Brinya Renata wants to walk on Earth's surface, she'll have to betray the only people who accept her for who she is.

The solution to all my problems sits on the planet's surface, but the fact I dream means I may never get to the ground.

I'm a defect. A glitch in my Genotech prevents accreditation, and the only way to fix it is to break into the Biofuse Labs and steal the Genotech blueprints. And even if I can pull it off, modifying my tech is an act of treason. A capital crime.

But if I'm never accredited, I'll never be accepted into society. Never be a Groundwalker.

So I try for it anyway, only to discover a secret compound full of people like me as I try to escape - a group of people who call themselves Glitchers and aren't afraid of who they are. People who accept their unique abilities as gifts, not flaws.

Now I'm faced with a difficult decision. Do I sacrifice what makes me...me...to fix my flaws and make my dreams come true? Or stay true to myself but risk my liufe to join the rebellion rising up against the Technocracy?

When what could have been a dream come true shapes up to be a living nightmare, I realize I never had a choice to begin with. This is my fate.

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Getting to the earth's surface just became a life or death necessity, but to get there, Brinya must make an impossible decision.

For eleven months I've known about the Technocracy's lies: the climoflyers we call home are designed to self-destruct, but Earth's still hasn't recovered from the climate disaster that drove the Originals to live in space.

Operating covertly, I aid the Defiants in preparing to escape their prison while unraveling the mystery of our exploitation as glitchers, all while posing as a Technocracy apprentice geneticist - an act of treason that could cost me my life.

Now my impending union with Caleb beckons, overshadowed by his unseen darkness. There's something wrong with him. Something no one else has seen. My once gentle confidant has turned cold, harsh, and angry; I no longer recognize my best friend. Meanwhile, I'm developing new glitches that could see me losing it all.

I can't do everything. I can't fix myself, cure Caleb, liberate my friends, and fight against the Technocracy, nor can I return to the blissful ignorance of a grey existence. Choices loom, demanding sacrifice.

But which of my friends do I turn my back on?

Kade or Caleb?

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Secrets and lies propelled Brinya to choose the defiants; now she
and kade must help the glitchers escape before the technocracy turns them all into soulless nightbringers.

Not everyone is happy about my decision to join the Defiants, especially when my arrival delays their escape from the compound. But the Technocracy is growing desperate, they're taking more glitchers than ever before. And with no place for us to go, or any of the resources we need, we're safer in the compound...or so I thought.

I know some of the glitchers think I can't be trusted, that I'm a Technocracy spy sent to destroy them, and without Kade to keep the peace as leader, they'd cast me out. But I can't worry about that right now, when I need to focus on learning everything I can about our unique DNA and how we survive on Earth's surface.

But when Sam blurts out to the entire group that the climoflyer's about to self-destruct, even Kade turns against me. Everything thinks I've doomed them all. I have no idea how Sam discovered the truth, but I don't have time to convince them otherwise, because the governor's daughter has just shown up to tell me Caleb is in trouble.

Kade refuses to help my friend. Once again, I must choose between the friend who set me free and the friends who've accepted me. Except this time, defying Kade comes at the ultimate cost. How was I supposed to know it was an ambush?

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After narrowly escaping the president's ambush, we must avoid recapture or face certain death.

Hunted as fugitives, nowhere is safe for long, and with the group scattered during a nightbringer ambush, half of the Glitchers are missing. Kade and I might barely be talking, but there's one thing we agree on: no Glitcher gets left behind.

Kade goes to find them while I prepare the others for our escape to earth's surface, but is earth even habitable? And how will we get there, let alone survive as Groundwalkers?

I have no idea, but with Kade's absence and nightbringers coming, I have to come up with a plan, and fast. Because being captured could lead to a fate worse than death:the nightbringer treatment.

But things go from bad to worse when all evidence points to Kade's capture. We'd agreed, no Glitcher left behind, but would he want me to risk everyone's lives for his?

Now I'm not sure what to do, because if I try to rescue the man I love, I'll risk everything and everyone he's sacrificed himself to protect.

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