Truth-Teller Rebellion

Truth-Teller Rebellion is book one in the Truth-Teller series. Truth-teller Cary Bishop can intuitively tell whether someone is lying. That’s a useful ability for a judge, but not for a teenager who is sensitive about his unusual eagle eyes. Cary’s younger sister Krin is an empath. She instinctively feels the emotions of those around her. Some might consider that a blessing, she thinks it a curse. She has spent most her short life learning how to wall out the foreign feelings intruding into her head. Nonetheless, sheltered by their parents, they’ve led a nearly idyllic life on the steppe, and haven’t needed to use their powerful traits. That changes when a sudden wall of water erupting from a glacial lake sweeps away their parents while on the spring cattle drive to summer pasture. A frantic, unsuccessful search for their parents leaves them presumed dead. Soon afterward, an unexpected visitor reveals their father, who they had always known as a peaceful herdsman, was the war hero C.E. Shaw, who defeated the invading dictator Perez years earlier. When Perez invades once again, Cary and Krin must harness their powers to help defeat him.