Hyperion
Kai is a scrap miner from the lowest tier of a domed city where genes decide everything. His left hand is mangled. His sister is dying. He expects nothing from....
Kai is a scrap miner from the lowest tier of a domed city where genes decide everything. His left hand is mangled. His sister is dying. He expects nothing from life except work, pain, and an early grave. Then the Scanner turns red. Branded with a genetic strain thought extinct for 147 years—Hyperion—Kai is dragged into an elite military academy where everyone wants him to fail. Some want him dead. And the power burning inside him has a cost: every time he uses it, something else stirs in his mind. Something that isn't him. Exiled to a radioactive wasteland, hunted by the ghosts of his own bloodline, and racing to stop a coup that will burn his city to the ground, Kai must fight to survive—and to stay himself—before his power consumes him entirely.