This is the first book in a trilogy; the second one is called "The Awakening" and the last one ("The Reckoning") is not yet released. Read the prologue and you'll 'get' the whole concept of this book. Basically it's like this: You know the movie "The 6th Sense"? What if that little boy didn't learn how to 'cope' with what he could see and hear, and instead of being in touch with the paranormal, people though he was psychotic? Meet Chloe Saunders...a fairly average 15 year old high school student, living in Buffalo NY. One day she starts seeing and hearing dead people. She gets so scared that she 'freaks out' and is admitted to Lyle House: a center for disturbed teens. She is diagnosed with schitzophrenia, and she tries to get better by taking her medications and therapy sessions. Ok, that's all normal enough...but now imagine this: You know the movie "X-men"? What if the teenage mutants who are...