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Melanie is a very special girl. Dr Caldwell calls her 'our little genius'. Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite, but they don't laugh. Melanie loves school. She loves learning about spelling and sums and the world outside the classroom and the children's cells.

Großbritannien, in nicht allzu ferner Zukunft: Ein grauen­hafter Parasit befällt die Menschheit. Millionen sind bereits infiziert und bedrohen die wenigen Gesunden. Alle Hoffnungen ruhen auf einer Schar Kinder, die anders auf den Erreger reagieren. Auf einer ent­legenen Militärbasis halten Wissenschaftler sie gefangen - zu allem entschlossen, um ihnen ihr biologisches Geheimnis zu entreißen. Doch es läuft nicht nach Plan.

M. R. Carey kehrt zurück in die Welt von "Die Berufene" und erzählt deren Vorgeschichte: Ein parasitärer Pilz hat unzählige Menschen in "Hungrige" verwandelt, ausgemergelte Zombies, die nach lebendigem Fleisch gieren. In einem zum Labor umgebauten Panzer ist eine kleine Gruppe von Militärs und Wissenschaftlern auf der Suche nach Antworten, unter ihnen der 15-jährige Hochbegabte Steven. Bei einem seiner heimlichen Streifzüge entdeckt er eine Gruppe von Kindern unter den Hungrigen, die sich eigentümlich kontrolliert verhalten. Steven erkennt in den Kindern die einmalige Chance auf ein Heilmittel - doch wie weit wird er gehen, um die Menschheit - oder die, die sich dafür halten - zu retten?

Jess Moulson is convicted of murder. But it's a murder she can't remember committing. Nothing is quite clear from the drug-fuelled night when a blaze set in Jess' apartment killed the little boy upstairs. But when the media brands her a child killer, she starts to believe it herself. Now she's on her way to Fellside, the biggest, most formidable women's prison in Europe, standing in the bleak Yorkshire moors. But Jess won't be alone in her prison cell.

Tous les dons ne sont pas une bénédiction. Chaque matin, Mélanie attend dans sa cellule qu'on l'emmène en cours. Quand on vient la chercher, le sergent Parks garde son arme braquée sur elle pendant que deux gardes la sanglent sur le fauteuil roulant. Elle dit en plaisantant qu'elle ne les mordra pas. Mais ça ne les fait pas rire. Mélanie est une petite fille très particulière.

Koli never planned to set foot outside his small village. He knew that beyond its walls lay a fearsome landscape filled with choker trees, vicious beasts, and Shunned men. But when he was exiled, he had no choice but to journey out into this strange world where every moment is a fight for survival. And it's not just Koli's life that is threatened. Whole villages just like his are dying out. But Koli heard a story, once. A story about lost London, and the mysterious tech of the Old Times that may still be there.

Beyond the walls of the small village of Mythen Rood lies an unrecognizable landscape. A place where overgrown forests are filled with choker trees and deadly seeds that will kill you where you stand. And if they don't get you, one of the dangerous shunned men will.mKoli has lived in Mythen Rood his entire life. He believes the first rule of survival is that you don't venture too far beyond the walls. He's wrong. 

What will the future hold for those who are left? Koli has come a long way since being exiled from his small village of Mythen Rood. In his search for the fabled tech of the Old Times, he knew he'd be battling shunned men, strange beasts and trees that move as fast as whips. But he has already encountered so much more than he bargained for. Now that Koli and his companions have found the source of the signal they've been following - the mysterious "Sword of Albion" - there is hope that their perilous journey will finally be worth something.