Children With Gifts, Dami Salako

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Children with Gifts
Paperback – November 11, 2025
by Dami Salako

Two years ago, teenage fighter Anthony Velazquez was taken from his home and forced into The Arenas—a brutal underground network of illegal fight clubs where the Gifted are pitted against each other for profit and bloodsport. Born with the power of cryokinesis, Anthony learned to survive the only way he could: by fighting.

When his prison is suddenly destroyed, Anthony wakes amid the wreckage to find his captors dead and a team of mercenaries dragging him to safety. But his rescuers aren’t heroes—they’re working for Min Liu, a ruthless strategist with her own dangerous agenda. Min needs Anthony’s abilities, and her crew’s loyalty, to eliminate a growing threat before it destabilizes everything she’s built.

As the team races to find a mysterious thief tied to the secrets of The Arenas, they uncover a conspiracy that stretches across worlds and threatens to unravel the fragile balance between the Gifted and those who exploit them. Betrayals mount, loyalties fracture, and Anthony must decide whether freedom is worth the price of rebellion.

Packed with cinematic action, found-family dynamics, and morally gray heroes, Children with Gifts is a genre-bending sci-fi thriller where survival is only the beginning—and power always comes with a cost.