2nd Place, Young Adult, Royal Palm Literary Award 2013When you choose your friends, you also choose your enemies. Seventeen-year-old Dee wants nothing more than to help her twin brother, Dum, break free from the trauma in their childhood and speak again, but the only person who can help Dum is the alpha empath, Danyael Sabre, whom the U. S. government considers a terrorist and traitor. The search for Danyael will lead Dee and Dum from the sheltered protection of the Mutant Affairs Council and into the violent, gang-controlled heart of Anacostia. Ensnared by Danyael's complicated network of friends and enemies, Dee makes her stand in a political and social war that she is ill equipped to fight. What can one human, armed only with her wits and pepper spray, do against the super-powered mutants who dominate the Genetic Revolution?In her quest to help her brother become normal, Dee will learn what it means to be extraordinary. This is a standalone futuristic thriller set in the award-winning world of the Double Helix.
