The Ring Chronicles - Gifted

16-year-old Emony has a gift: she can detect lies. But this ability puts her in danger when she leaves her home, the hostile Rauring Desert. For there is only one way to escape the murderous heat and excruciating thirst - Emony must begin an apprenticeship with the company that controls the world's water supply. She quickly figures out that her employer is cheating the desert dwellers. The only honest person seems to be her instructor Kohen, for whom she soon feels more. Can she trust him in the fight against the superior enemy? And are the lies even bigger than she suspects?...