The Celestine
3 primary works 4 total works planned
Book 1
When they arrived, they spread across the sky like a sea of jellyfish—silent, unknown, alien. When they left, a year later, it seemed as if nothing had changed. But soon, certain girls were born with peculiar abilities—inhuman abilities. An international commission was formed to investigate…and fear began to spread. Families were swept from their homes and, one by one, any girl that was different disappeared.
Penn Roma’s four sisters were born with these dreaded powers: they control the elements of fire, water, earth, and wind.
Penn is the unimaginable fifth child, one with the power to call down the stars.
Her father has hidden his daughters’ powers for sixteen years. Then, one explosive night, Penn loses everything: her sisters are taken, her family destroyed. Now, Penn must do the unthinkable and use the power she’s spent a lifetime suppressing. To save her family and herself, she must travel to the very heart of her world’s darkness and discover the truth about her terrifying gift.
Book 2
Earth, not so very long from now: the silent, inscrutable alien visitors who bathed the planet in transforming rains have moved on, leaving behind a world much changed.
Penn Roma, age sixteen, is blessed—or cursed—with supernatural talents she has always concealed. Her sisters, likewise afflicted, are prisoners of the Commission, the government agency tasked with controlling these strange children. Penn’s determination to save them only gains urgency when she learns of the horrifying plans the twisted Warden Dodge has for the peculiar charges.
But Penn herself must remain hidden, navigating a series of fantastical havens with her embattled allies, similarly enhanced teens also in the Commission’s crosshairs. Worse, her vast, half-understood powers have become unpredictable, failing at critical moments and activating outside of her control.
Can Penn trust a rogue warden, supposedly opposed to Dodge’s schemes, to help free her family…or has the Commission set its most nefarious trap yet?
Book 3
Still on the run from the Commission, and unsure who to trust, Penn and her friends seek out a hopeful ally in an acquaintance of her father's. And lingering questions about who was really buried at the Hollow, and who's truly the enemy make trusting anyone difficult.
But things are changing...
A viral video makes an appearance online, showing the raid that saved Penn's sister. This new proof of the Commission's true activities makes people angry enough to challenge the organization at every turn; it makes them start paying attention to the lies and the cover-ups. For the first time in months, hope seems to be a real thing again.
Then the sky turns pink. Jellyfish-like blobs return to their seats in the atmosphere, and Penn's instinct to protect the people around her draws her into the open in front of a Commission convoy. Now it's a race to make it to her father's contact before the Commission catches up, but once she's there, she may find that no sanctuary is safe anymore.