Devya's Children

When Dr. Jessica Paladon worked for her friend, Dr. Dean Devya, she helped create Nadia, one of the world's few Minders. Tough circumstances drove her away from that life, and to protect the secrets, she willingly took a drug that induced amnesia. But now she needs those memories. Two children - her children - Nadia and Varick, are competing in a winners-take-all, losers-might-die competition for the biggest secret government contract out there. They're fighting for the right to exist.

One can read minds, another can shape dreams, and still another can heal battle wounds. The list goes on. Join Jillian and her siblings as they navigate the dangers of living life as genetically Gifted people. Some, like Danielle, want to help them. Some, like Devya, want to control them. And many others just want to own them.

The kidnapping changes everything...Twelve-year-old Jillian Blairington never thought she was particularly special. She was wrong. She’s a Dream Shaper. The scientists responsible for the genetic modifications kidnap her in order to teach Jillian how to use her Gift. But she isn’t alone. They also have her babysitter, Danielle Matheson, snatched to keep her in line. They also have a task for her. If Jillian can’t master her Gift quickly, Danielle might only be the first victim of many.

Nadia can speak to minds. Now, hers has gone silent. Despite returning home, Jillian Blairington keeps in touch with her genetically Gifted siblings. She speaks with Nadia every day until the Minder slips into a coma. The sudden silence is deafening. Determined to help, Jillian recruits Danielle Matheson to get to Nadia’s side. That involves walking back into the facility they barely escaped from. While Jillian fights to awaken her sister, Danielle scrambles to keep a friend from falling victim to human traffickers.

Danielle Matheson faces a difficult decision: helplessly watch Christy's mother die of cancer, or ask Jillian and her genetically Gifted siblings to risk their freedom to save her. Once committed to the cause, Jillian, Malia, and Michio turn their full attention to fighting the cancer, but more danger awaits them. Defeating the disease and dodging government agents soon become the least of their worries when measured against the race against time to rescue one girl from certain death.

Genetically altering humans is illegal.... But Varick and his siblings - Devya’s Children - exist. He’s been born and bred to be the perfect soldier, but he can’t be everywhere. If one counts each of his siblings plus Danielle Matheson, the list of people Varick wants to protect stretches from coast to coast. The more he gets to know Danielle, the more she comes to mean to him. Meanwhile, somebody has captured Nadia and wants to sell her to the highest bidder. Varick’s lifelong quest has been to free her from their father, Dr. Dean Devya.

Allies are dead. Survivors are hunted. The net’s closing in. For Jillian and her genetically altered siblings, staying free from government control has always been a battle. But the threats grow wider and more personal when Dustin betrays them. He arranges for Jillian, Danielle, and Malia to be brought to Las Vegas along with their respective mothers as hostages. He needs the combined abilities of Jillian, Malia, and Nadia to fully access his Gift. They discover Dustin holds the key to their collective fate.

Meet Jillian Blairington in some of the adventures and misadventures that predate the events of Ashlynn's Dreams.