The Love Experiment

What if the most dangerous thing about you... was also the most beautiful? Jessica Love can bend time. Nico Fisk can feel a building's heartbeat through his fingertips. And somewhere in a secret facility, a doctor is convinced he can "fix" them all. When Jessica's eleventh birthday explodes into pandemonium at her family's Puerto Rican villa, and Nico is snatched off the streets of Spanish Harlem, they both end up in the same nightmare: trapped, studied, and treated like experiments instead of people. But here's the thing about putting powerful kids in cages. Eventually, they find each other. And when they do? All bets are off. Now Jessica has to make impossible choices: trust a boy she barely knows, believe the secrets her parents have been hiding, and figure out why a mysterious Book keeps appearing in her visions. Because breaking out of a top-secret facility is hard enough, but there are other kids in those cells. Kids with powers. Kids who've been erased from the world. Jessica's father Duane knows exactly what it's like to be hunted for what you are: he survived the same experiments a generation ago. Now he'll do whatever it takes to protect his family and stop history from repeating itself. But can two kid escapees outsmart an obsessed scientist and dodge a shadowy organization long enough for the adults to catch up? And what happens when the ancient force humming through their bloodlines decides it's done waiting? With unforgettable characters, breakneck pacing, and a found family you'll want to join, The Love Experiment asks: What blooms in the cracks of a broken world? Answer: something wild, powerful, and absolutely unstoppable. For readers who loved The Mysterious Benedict Society, Children of Blood and Bone, and anyone who's ever felt like their differences made them extraordinary. View Less