Book excerpt: Technology simply cannot be uninvented. It can, however, be contained. Cognation Academy’s invisible passages, floating buildings, and treetop hideaways appear to be powered by magic. Tech giant Cognation Industries, however, doesn’t need magic to make the impossible a reality. In her second year at the Academy, Charlotte Blythe comes face to face with Cognation’s latest creations in the form of ten new students who are alarmingly real - but not exactly human. This experiment will challenge everything Charlotte thought she believed about her world and force her to make unimaginable decisions as she searches for the hidden truth.