What if you could possess impossible powers that defy every law known to man concerning time, space, and reality using only the raw fuel of your normal everyday emotions? Ellie Kaehill can. It's 2177. The Rurals of the N.U.S., a war ravaged and resource poor America that scrapes by every day on the meager charities of its government, is the only world Ellie and her family have ever known. But as her seventeenth birthday quickly approaches, Ellie dreams of a better life in the city of New Columbia by studying at the academies, a privilege that can only be obtained by passing the Trials, a mysterious set of tests designed to identify the most special and exceptional students to be allowed a chance at higher learning in the city beyond the Layer. It's only after arriving in New Columbia, at the Carivealli Academy for Psychosomatic Manifestation, that Ellie discovers the powerful psychic abilities that have existed inside of her this entire time. But that knowledge and power won't come without a price. While learning about her new found abilities, in a strange place where it's difficult to discern friend from foe, Ellie must now focus her efforts on the even greater tests of The Crucible and The Box. Navigating the politics of fear in a city where control is the only real law and keeping one step ahead of the people that never want her to graduate, Ellie will need all her wits, strength, and abilities if she ever wants to step out from the looming shadow of the "The Disappearing Girl" and leave New Columbia alive.