Kael's Obsession (Coalition 1.5)

Kael, the anti-social teen from Sector Three, reveals the story behind the mysterious appearance of the book everyone's been talking about: the Book of secrets.

His obsessive behavior with the Book threatens to drive him over the edge of sanity until the night his community is nearly burnt to the ground. That night he meets a girl named Shai and is inexplicably drawn to her, in spite of their incompatiblity and his hatred for her home town.

When he realizes his strange reaction to her is because of the Book he decides to destroy it-- before his obsession shatters him.