In the five-book epic adventure, brainwaves altered by a covert government project based out of the Secret City of Oak Ridge, the Children of the Elements are brought together and tested as weapons of mass destruction. Their struggle to free themselves and survive in the hostile East Tennessee mountains creates massive chaos and threatens to bring about an apocalypse. When nature, put into the hands of children that rule wind, earth, fire, water, and the void, refuses to be controlled, can mankind endure? When nature refuses to be controlled, can mankind endure? A dangerous conspiracy unfolds... In Author R.J. Merle's whirlwind start of the Children of the Elements series, a clumsy teenage techno-geek struggles to protect kidnapped children from a covert government organization responsible for creating their abilities to control the five elements. A mighty wind... Seventeen-year-old Brody Thackett's conspiracy theorist brother ensnares him in a real life children-as-weapons plot, while a determined scientist grooms happy-go-lucky, seven-year-old Darcy Lynn Carpenter to use the wind as a deadly weapon. Out of control... Despite the firm hand of Scientist Nora Hicks, Brody struggles to rescue the kids and escape, while Darcy Lynn fights to gain control of the surging power of the savage winds.