Lead Council member, Christoph, is dead by Elyse’s hand, and Descendants have begun to emerge, exposing their secret to the world. To break The Council’s oppression and rise up against a plot so many years in the making, Elyse will need to get dangerously close to her enemy. It will take more than the words of an oracle to help them fight against the most powerful Descendant alive. Christoph has done the one thing that ensures she’ll fight to the death. She doesn’t need a prophecy to tell her to lead an army. When Kara arrives with the news that Anna and Chloe have been captured, Elyse is faced with the realization that no one is safe until The Council is stopped and Christoph is destroyed. As long as they believe she’s dead, she has time to rest and train for war. But for Elyse, the game is just beginning – and she’s not entirely willing to play by their rules.Įlyse has done everything she can to protect her friends from The Council’s reach. Others are determined to keep her from doing just that. Some are waiting for her to put an end to centuries of traditions that have oppressed their people under the guise of safeguarding them. She is one of them, and they have been waiting for her for a long time. There are others like her all over the world, descendants of the very people the Greeks considered gods. Elyse is not the only one keeping secrets. Now, only one other person in the world knows about her age and ability. After the death of her parents, she’s been careful to keep her secret as closely guarded as possible. For Elyse, these things don’t make her special. Second, that her blood has a mysterious power to heal. First, that she ages five times slower than average people, so that while she looks eighteen years old, she’s closer to eighty. She’s been keeping secrets her whole life.

Elyse knows what it means to keep a secret.

Oppression by Jessica Therrien