The events in this book are real. Names and places have been changed to protect the Lorien seven, who remain in hiding. Take this as your first warning. Other civilisations do exist, some of them seek to destroy you.- Pittacus Lore
On the 12th hour of the first day of October 1989, 43 women around the world gave birth. This was unusual in the only fact that none of these women had been pregnant when the day first Reginald Hargreeves, eccentric billionaire and adventurer, resolved to locate and adopt as many of the children as possible. He got seven of them.- Umbrella Academy