


It takes place during the aftermath of a fictional disease known as 'IAAN' which killed most of the children in the United States and left the surviving children with supernatural abilities.

The series follows a teenage girl named Ruby, a 16-year-old girl with special abilities that she has only just begun to understand. The first novel, The Darkest Minds, spent eight weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list for a children's series, peaking at number three. The series was first published in the United States in 2012 by Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Publishing Worldwide. The Darkest Minds, written by American author Alexandra Bracken, is a young adult dystopian fiction series consisting of four novels and several novellas compiled in Through the Dark. Hyperion Books for Children / Disney Publishing Worldwide
