Zetes talks to Gabriel and invites him to his mansion to discuss his future, as he believes Gabriel is ready to join him in his plans to create psychic weapons. The link allows them to 'hear' each other's thoughts and communicate, but they cannot get rid of it afterwards so they try to find a way to break the link, but discover that the only way is for one of them to die.Įventually, Mr. Zetes, and Gabriel locks the five of them into a psychic link to save them. The teens almost get caught by the head of the Institute, Mr. They investigate and find a secret passageway, which contains plans to turn them into psychic weapons to sell to major corporations, and a file about Project Black Lightning, a previous project in which other psychics were tested upon and 'terminated'.

The psychics become suspicious and begin to believe the warnings about the Institute. While at the Institute, they are tested on their psychic abilities, but a mysterious man warns Kaitlyn that the Institute is dangerous, and even the sullen housekeeper Marisol warns them to get out as soon as possible, after which she goes into coma. She quickly befriends three of the other teens, Anna Eva Whiteraven, Lewis Chao and Rob Kessler, and forms feelings for Rob the fifth psychic, Gabriel Wolfe is aloof and reluctant to form friendships with anyone except Kaitlyn.

She is offered a place by Joyce Piper, at a psychic research center known as the Zetes Institute, and after seeing a child get hurt, as foreseen by one of her premonitions, she agrees to go to the Institute with four other teenagers who have powers of their own. She is able to visualize her premonitions through drawings, but she often cannot interpret them until it is too late. Kaitlyn Fairchild is a psychic teenager who is believed to be a witch. Smith announced that she has planned out a sequel to the trilogy, titled Blindsight.

The trilogy was published as one book in Trade Paperback and eBook format on September 8, 2009. Kait and the four other psychics at the live-in Zetes Institute are the most powerful psychics in the country in their age group. The story follows the protagonist, Kaitlyn Fairchild, as she attends, uncovers a plot, and ultimately defeats the Zetes Institute, a place where she went to learn about her own psychic powers. Horror, Fantasy, Romance, Young adult fictionĭark Visions is a trilogy of young adult fiction by L.

Dark visions by lj smith