Unbreakable

Garcia, Kami. Unbreakable. Legion Book 1. 2013. 305p. ISBN 9780316210171. Available as an eBook from Overdrive.

Kennedy Waters has always felt different from the other kids. She has eidetic memory, also referred to as photographic memory. Unlike most people, she can recall all words and images she sees, even if only briefly. She is also an accomplished artist, dabbling in drawing and other forms of visual arts. Ever since her father left her and her mother when she was only five, it has been the two of them together, Kennedy and her mother.

But when her mother suddenly dies of an apparent heart attack, Kennedy is left alone in the world. Her mother’s sister comes over to help with the arrangements and the sale of the house, but Kennedy won’t go live with her. Instead, she’ll be attending a private boarding school.

Grieving, and about to lose her best friend as well on the eve of her final departure for school, Kennedy is attacked in her house by a ghost. She never believed in ghosts, until this one tried to kill her. She had recently seen it in the graveyard where her cat, Elvis, had escaped to, and she would have been strangled to death had two strangers not burst in her room and destroyed the ghost.

Identical twins Jared and Lukas have been spying on Kennedy for a few days, and their appearance at this crucial moment is no coincidence. They are members of a group called the Legion, who hunts paranormal activities linked to an ancient demon, invoked back in the 1700s to chase members of the Illuminati in a summoning turned horribly wrong. Since then, each of the five members of the legion has sworn to do whatever it takes to banish the demon. And her mother’s death was not an accident, but a murder most likely committed by the same ghost who tried to kill her.

On that same night all five members of the Legion were murdered, but as each had already begun training a family member, the new members of the Legion have gathered to put an end to that demon: Priest, the weapons designer and the youngest member of the team; Alara, who knows ancient rituals taught by her grand-mother, and the twins. Unlike them, however, Kennedy has never heard of the Legion, and her mother never trained her.

Now that deadly spirits are chasing them, Kennedy must decide if she does in fact belong to the Legion as the others believe, or if she is a fraud. What skills could she possibly bring to this motley group? Can she help save the world from a powerful demon or will she be its next victim?

The story continues in Unmarked.