The Remnants of Hope
Daniel R. Burkhard
Paperback
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, July 16, 2015)
Aidan hates the planet No Worth. Whether it is the loss of his father on the long journey from Earth, the dying state of the colony planet, or the way he and his sister are treated, he has more than enough reasons to hate his new home. If only he were normal, but he and his twin sister, Raelynn, have never been normal. They've spent their whole lives hiding their differences, especially their ability to sense and feel each other's emotions. But their ability has been noticed by something else on the dying planet. Whatever it is that has noticed them seems able to share its emotions with them as well.Aidan's troubles worsen with a simple choice to follow his sister and look for the source of the alien emotions. The consequences of that choice soon leave Aidan without his sister, and force him to rely on his own courage and ability to get to the bottom of what is really going on. With the help of a newfound friend and a sympathetic teacher he sets out to find his sister, and learns more than he ever could have imagined about the secret history of humanity on No Worth. It is a secret history buried in the remnants of Hope that threatens the continued existence of the human colony.Alone on a planet he hates, Aidan is forced to choose between finding his sister or preventing what could be the destruction of the last human city on No Worth. A battle is brewing between the city's guardians and the source of the alien emotions, and Aidan may be the only one who can stop it.