Lake of Sapphire: Allium Series, #1

The powerful are just as cursed as the weak...

Scotlind Rumor is about to graduate from school—which means it's finally time to take her Trials. A test every Advenian is forced to participate in, designed to measure their abilities and rank them among their peers. The only problem is, Scotlind is considered weak and powerless for her kind. She has no abilities to show, only secrets, and keeping them hidden is vital to her life.

She was born to another Kingdom, growing up there until she was brutally kidnapped and abandoned on foreign soil—the Dark Kingdom of Tennebris—home to Advenians who possess deadly mental abilities to which Scotlind is susceptible. She has no idea why she was kidnapped, or what happened to her family, but for the past eleven years, she's been forced to pretend to be something she's not.

As she navigates through life, trying to blend in as a normal Tennebrisian student, she uncovers more dangers,...