Dark Friends — Mark Butler

Around the globe, thousands of children are without parents, without guardians, without love...

From the mind of prolific author MD Butler is a story of an orphan named Amelia, an extraordinary young girl who is raised in one of the world's most hellish orphanages.
As a child prodigy, Amelia is revered and hailed by other luckless children as a hero, a savior who can manipulate the minds of cruel men and navigate them through a heartless, neglectful system. However, hard trials and the pain of growing up damage her powerful mind and she struggles to reconcile the realities of the world with the ideals of her spirit.
When Amelia is adopted, her academic parents are ecstatic to have a child genius of their own, but devastated to learn the truths about Amelia's past and the condition it has left her in. Through devastating and undpredictable circumstances, they learn the full extent of Amelia's power and pain.