FRICTION Installment

I had the idea for these since practically several months before the 2011 New Year Celebration.

Okay, so I have this idea of FRICTION Installment, consisting the DOWN Tetralogy, FORWARD Trilogy, and LEAP Sequence. In total, there are 12 books.

here are the back cover texts. They also pretty much covered the synopsis. Enjoy! :)

=DOWN=

1) Unconscious

THOMAS Craig was having weird dreams.

 Although normally dreams are weird, but he had always noticed something else.

 Everytime he woke up, his life would return him the tickling sensation of deja vu: he's seen the exact events in his dreams.

 At first, it suits him just fine. But lately, his dreams involved disasters. And they all came true.

 Tom soon realized the fact, and he knew he had to master his dreams before he caused even mroe disasters...

 And ended up losing his loved ones.

2) Deep Thoughts

GABRIELLA Watson is known as the smartest girl and the best puzzle solver at her school.

 Any puzzle, riddle, maze, give it to her: she'll always find a solution. Or put her in a labyrinth without a map. She could always get out.

 But her school itself just became a maze when it fell into the custody of a criminal mastermind and his gang of terrorists.

 The building is soon isolated. No one could get out to find help.

 No one, maybe, except Gabriella -- but only if she can finally find a solution for an impossible maze...

3) One False Impulse

THE Andersons had been unique.

 Margaret, the older sister, could see everything around her that the others can't. While Steven, her little brother, can see past events in the place he's in.

 Lately, Maggie feels like being tailed by someone. Not long after she started feeling so, her parents were murdered.

 Steven checked the murder and stated that the killer wore black cloak and is armed with a golden dagger that's red by blood. With a chill down the back, Maggie said that the mystery man that followed her had the same features.

 Maggie and Steven must uncloak the murderer hiding in their Manor before they fell next victim. Or else...

4) The Thinker's Final Mistake

THOMAS Craig, Gabriella Watson, Margaret Anderson, Steven Anderson. Four different people. Four different gifts. But they had two things in common: one, they've all cheated death swiftly. And two, they've all met Peterson Cahill.

 As a genius who lived for centuries -- thanks to his friend Nicolas Flamel's Elixir of Life -- he created an experiment to enhance human's brain and senses. He tested it on four random samples -- the gifted four -- and the results are astounding.

 Due to his success, Pete tried the experiment on himself. But it grew off control and Pete's no longer himself.

 Knowing the truth, Tom, Gabriella, Maggie, and Steven joined forces to return Pete and keep his inventions off the wrong hands. Before things get worse...

 And, as always, they do.

=FORWARD=

1) Eyes

AMBER Ruth might be blind, but that doesn't stop her from always trying to get her eyes fixed.

 In the meantime, she used her other senses to survive. But she had no idea she was brought into an illegal military program.

 Sightless, consumed in fear, and chased by the program executors, Amber tried to get out and tell the government what really happened. But she is overwhelmed in every corner she turned into.

 Forced to leave the base uncaught and blindfolded, Amber suddenly realized what she's actually capable of.

 But this program ended up giving her normal eyes.

 However, she started doubting if she still want another set of eyes...because the ones she had already witnessed enough without having to literally see.

2)Mirrors

JASON Case suddenly appeared at Anne's party.

 No vehicle. No transportation. Just...appear.

 Anne saw him entering through mirrors and thus knew his secret. She kept things fine. But then Jason accidentally witnessed a murder.

 The murderer noticed him and vowed to chase him to death.

 Jason is an expert in escaping things. But the killer kept his vow, and anywhere Jason goes that will be where the killer is.

 However, Jason had one weak point even he doesn't know: Anne. And, sooner or later, the murderer would know this...and exploit Anne for himself.

3)Lenses

DOM Wilson never had any idea how vital his bloodline is to the world.

 His great grandfather's great great grandfather's father is a legacy of knowledge. He formed the backbone of the modern day science. He brought breakthroughs to the world of mankind.

 But his legacy were all destroyed when one of his inventions fell into the hands of Peterson Cahill.

 Dom explored the world on the purpose to return his ancestor's invention and proved to the world that it's not Cahill that created it.

 But as he journey deeper, the truth started unveiling itself...and, by every piece of puzzle he found, Dom would see that things aren't what they seem.

=LEAP=

1) Rendezvous

THOMAS Craig faced another bitter truth.

 He's mastered his subconsciousness alright, but his girlfriend Catherine Owen left him for "Reasons you won't understand just yet."

 Tom got over her by setting himself to dream of her every night. But somehow those dreams won't come true.

 Apparently Kate had a secret Tom have never known: she is also a test subject, and she escaped from the scientists that tested her. She's a fugitive, and she knew Tom won't be safe anywhere near her. And, with the test ran on Kate, Tom isn't the only one around with gifts.

 She determined to find Tom and explain everything. But her captors are closing in and she had less than a slim chance to ever meet her loved one again.

 Except she managed to master her gifts...which is rather impossible concerning the time she had.

2) Cornered

DOM Wilson finally understood the truth about his ancestor George Wilson. He also understood his life-death rivalry with Peterson Cahill. But he knew he can still clean George Wilson's name.

 He's heard rumors about Cahill testing his latest inventions on random samples. He intended to find them, but he got more than he bargained for: the samples and  Peterson Cahill himself.

 As secrets started leaking, Dom was forced to take a drastic measure: to use the last legacy George Wilson left for his descendants, an invention so powerful that even an insane would have second thoughts to use it...

3) Divided

THE Andersons, Maggie and Steven, found a boy that claimed to be Jason Case stealing their food. He apologized and said he needed food to help cure his sick girlfriend Anne.

 The Andersons softened and frequently letting him in to get him some food.

 But along the time,they started suspecting each other. They've both escaped a brutal killer. They've both had a loved one used by that killer. And an even stranger fact is in: Steven rechecked his parents' murder, and suddenly noticed that there's a witness in the room corner. And it was Jason.

 Apparently the Andersons and Jason had been pursued by a same person. But who is he? How can he be at places at a time?

 But as the question awaited an answer, the suspicion between grew stronger and it's either the Andersons or Jason that'll backstab one another first...

4) Gather

WITH Dom Wilson not being himself, Gabriella Watson suspected something. Her (once blind) good friend, Amber Ruth, thought the same thing.

 Gabriella soon figured out it had something to do with Peterson Cahill. Pete's face only darkened when he heard this news. He simply said, "Then now it's used."

 Gabriella decided to call the other Cahill test subjects, and got more than she bargained for.

 Tom brought his girlfriend Kate who was apparently able to temporarily block or rewrite brain functions, and the Andersons brought along Jason who can teleport through a mirror to another.

 However, nothing is considered safe even with new forces in their party: the Man in Black was back, Dom Wilson is a step closer to his ultimate power...

 And he knew the secret to the newcomers' powers.

5) Destination

PETERSON Cahill knew he was about to lose the war.

 It's a personal rivalry with neverending loath, but since both sides are nature-born geniuses, he figured out that the struggle will eventually spread to the whole world.

 Dom Wilson, the last descendant of George Wilson -- Cahill's Rival -- took the last weapon George left him. A weapon that had totally changed him.

 Dom started over-enjoying his new powers, and Pete and his team knew they had to stop him. A new curtain of tyranny is opening wide, and it's only Pete's team that stood between Dom and the control over the world...