Nick James

Jesse Fisher, a Skyship dweller, and Cassius Stevenson, a young operative from Earth's surface, enter forbidden territory in search of Pearls, small orbs that fall from space and are capable of powering entire cities. When their paths cross, the chance meeting endows them both with unusual powers that their respective governments will stop at nothing to possess.

When fifteen-year-old Jesse manages to smuggle onboard the Academy a mysterious red Pearl, a fragment of space debris that is a dying Earth's most important energy source, he sets forth a destructive chain of events.