In 1692, in the Ipswich colony of Massachusetts, five families with untold power formed a covenant of silence. One family, lusting for more, was banished, their bloodline disappearing without a trace.
That is my ancestral history. I am the eldest daughter of one of the four families. My name is Cayden Danvers, and like my older brother Caleb, I have The Power.
It turns out that in 1692, my great (times about five) grandfather married a woman with The Power, so the Danvers family is a little different from the other four families in that the eldest son AND daughter received The Power.
And because my brother and I are the eldest children (I mean, how can we not be, when my parents only had two children) we both have it; although I'm a little more liberal when it comes to using it. That is because it doesn't have the same affect on the women as it does on the men.
Well it does, but the aging process goes on at a slightly slower pace.
I am seventeen years old and the baby of the group, what that means is that I will be the last one to ascend and the four boys seem to feel the need to protect me, although, I'm pretty sure that I can take care of myself.
Although Caleb is turning eighteen this fall and I won't be turning eighteen until spring, we are both seniors at Spencer Academy. The students there basically treat us like twins although I am nine months and three days younger than Caleb is.
At Spencer I have friends, but the only ones I'm actually extremely close to are the ones that know about what I am. That is to say that my best friends are my older brother and the other three Sons of Ipswich. And I'm pretty close to Kate, Pogue's girlfriend. She's actually the only friend that I have that is a girl at the moment.
I just don't get along with most girls, because they're too busy trying to get into my brother's pants to actually notice me.
That's my life, it's been good up until this year; this year things began to change.