Modified: Book One in the Manipulated Series

They told us the surface would kill us in minutes.
Seventeen-year-old Fin has spent her life mining in underground tunnels, believing the radiation above means instant death for dwellers like her. The Enhanced Human Coalition feeds and houses them in exchange for backbreaking labor, all while promising protection from the deadly world above.

But when Fin steals a mysterious device during a botched heist, everything she believes begins to crumble. The tech doesn't just give her superhuman abilities. It makes her question everything the EHC has told them about the world above.

Now she's marked for death, her new powers making her a threat the Coalition can't ignore. With her found family of loyal friends and an unlikely surface-world ally, Fin faces an impossible choice: stay buried in the tunnels with the lies she's always known, or lead a desperate rebellion to discover what's really waiting on the surface.

Some truths are worth dying for. Others might kill you just for knowing them.

Perfect for fans of Suzanne Collins and readers who crave dystopian resistance stories. Start the complete six-book series that follows Fin's journey from underground slave to surface revolutionary.