Lorien Legacies is a series of young adult science fiction books, written by James Frey,[1] Jobie Hughes, and formerly, Greg Boose, under the collective pseudonym Pittacus Lore.
The title of the series is taken from Lorien in the Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, also called Lothlorien, it is an Elf realm in Middle Earth.
John begins inheriting Legacies, the ancestral right of special Loric known as Garde and must learn to keep his powers hidden from his human friends.
While at the convent, Marina also meets a young girl named Ella who is later revealed to be Number Ten, a younger Loric who came to earth on a separate aircraft than the other nine with her own Cêpan, Crayton.
The two are successful in finding both the chests and another member of the Garde, Number Nine, but when escaping the base Sam is left behind, and Four, Nine, and Bernie Kosar leave alone.
The remaining Loric invade Dulce base to free Six, Sarah, and Sam, as well as fight Setrakus Ra, leader of the Mogadorians.
A prologue in third person briefly narrates the story of an unnamed human-turned-Garde (later known as Daniela) as she survives a Mogadorian attack on New York.
The Garde regroup and John has a moment with the deceased Sarah, and Mark is disgusted at his lack of emotion and blames him for her death.
Some new Human-Garde post a video on the internet to attract John's attention to have him pick them up as they stand by a Loralite stone in Niagara Falls.
The other team, en route to Niagara Falls, encounter turbulence when Sam uses his technopathic legacy to accidentally turn off the ship's engines.
Sam attempts to use his techno legacy to copy the cloaking device codes into everyday electronics, he builds a prototype that he asks the team to test when they attack the warship.
John begins killing all the Mogadorians in a cold ruthless manner, while Adam and Six strip the skimmers of their cloaking devices.
Phiri dun Ra is there, whose arm has been replaced with black ooze-like tendrils, then she impales John and begins to drain his legacies while he's helpless.
The mind-controlling Mogadorian releases a swarm of seemingly black flies that force half the marines to open fire on the others.
The Garde, aboard their stolen warship, make their way to the West Virginia base where Setrákus waits.
Five flies Six and Adam into the base to deactivate the shield, once that's done, Marina, John, Five, and Nine make their way underground to find Setrákus.
She sees a frail withered old man crawling across the cavern floor she picks up the Voron dagger and decapitates him.
He finds Adam in Alaska with Rex in a prison camp with other Mogs who surrendered, John says he can break them out and he replies saying this is the best place for him to rehabilitate his people.
She says that he's come at a good time and shows him a video footage of the West Virginia base where an object that looked like a missile shoots up into the sky.
Once back at Ashwood Estates, a Mogadorian compound, Adam is asked by his father to be hooked up to a special machine that is connected to One's body.
[10] Released on July 23, 2013, Secret Histories is a paperback edition of the second compilation of Lost Files novellas — The Search for Sam, Last Days of Lorien, and The Forgotten Ones.
[14] Released on July 22, 2014, in the US and August 14, 2014, in the UK, Hidden Enemy is the third compilation of Lost Files novellas — Five's Legacy, Return to Paradise, and Five's Betrayal.
The novella centers around the origins of Number Five, including the short amount of time he spent with his Cêpan, Rey, and his eventual "capture" by Mogadorians.
[16] Released on April 15, 2014, exclusively as an e-Book, this prequel companion novella covers what happened in the aftermath of the Mogadorian attack on Paradise, Ohio, from the perspective of Mark James —Number Four's bully-turned-ally.
The Mogs have convinced him that they will be the victors in the war for Earth, and Five decides he would rather be on the winning side, realizing that the only thing that matters is his survival.
[19] Released on December 23, 2014, The Fugitive follows Mark James as he tries to track down Sarah Hart, evade the Mogadorians and the FBI, and discover the identity of the mysterious blogger he knows only as GUARD.
[20] Released on April 21, 2015, The Navigator reveals the truth about the crew of the two Loric spaceships who escaped to Earth and shows what happened to the pilots after they arrived and parted ways with the Garde.
[22] Released on May 31, 2016, the fifth compilation of Lost Files novellas consists of Legacies Reborn, Last Defense, and Hunt for The Garde.
[23] Released on November 24, 2015, Legacies Reborn gives a look at the Mogadorian invasion from the perspective of Daniela Morales, a human teen who's shocked to discover aliens are attacking New York—and that she suddenly has the power to fight back.
[37][38][39] The first two books, I Am Number Four and The Power of Six, both reached #1 on The New York Times Best Seller list, collectively spending ten weeks in the top spot.