Rubble and smoke. That is the only thing seventeen-year-old Elena Pierce remembers from the incident. Now sent to a boarding school for her own protection, her memories from the past year are suppressed, her parents are dead, and her casting abilities are unusable. And the culprit behind it, unknown. What's a Human girl to do? Bringing readers to new realms of imagination the YA Fantasies series, The Awakening, explores the very nature of our humanity as Elena journeys to rediscover who she is.