He had been stealing money from their fund to pay off gambling debts, so they set him up to look like the kidnapper. Tory learns that they faked their kidnapping so their stepfather would have to pay the ransom from their trust fund. To her surprise, they are angry that she’s found them. She breaks the glass to enter and to rescue them. Tory finds a barn-like structure and sees the twins through a window. The four split up to search different areas. The meager evidence they gather leads them to an old plantation. The group is certain the disappearances are connected, and the group works overtime to find clues.
Ella is Tory’s best friend, and Tory is distraught at her disappearance. Within a few days of the twins’ disappearance, another school friend named Ella vanishes. After the police get a video demanding a ransom, the case becomes a kidnapping, and the Virals decide they need to use their special abilities to try to find the twins, Peter and Lucy. He has been studying them to find the truth about Tory’s secret.Īmid the Virals’ pursuit of the XPB-19 files, a set of twins from school goes missing. Chance discovered all of Karsten’s files locked away in his deceased father’s private study. When not in school, they work to hack the encrypted files.Ĭhance Claybourne, a wealthy, former classmate, is also working hard to learn more about their secret. They believe it stores files pertinent to their condition. The creator of the new virus, Karsten, is dead, but the kids found his flash drive. Sometimes it fails when they need it the most. In Exposure, their flaring comes and goes, and they can’t fully control it. The Virals, as they call themselves, have become one consciousness - a pack - and they are able to communicate without words when they flare. In the previous book, they were able to control their flaring abilities. The supervirus, XPB-19, derived from two strains of parvovirus, rewrote their DNA, resulting in wolf-like powers - glowing eyes, super-human speed, agility and heightened senses - a temporary state they call flaring. Tory, Ben, and two other young men, Shelton and Hi, have been coping for about a year with the effects of a supervirus infection they acquired from contact with Coop, Tory’s wolfdog. Ben no longer attends Bolton Preparatory Academy, an elite and prestigious school, with the others because of his close dealings with the Gamemaster. He also told Tory that he wants to be more than friends, but now they don’t even talk. Because Ben helped the Gamemaster, though not realizing how evil he was, Tory has a difficult time forgiving him. Tory and Ben testify against him, and he’s found guilty. The book opens with the Gamemaster’s trial, the villain from the third book.
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