Roswell High

Premise

• rearrange molecules.
• "dreamwalk".
• sense each other's emotions from afar.
• create psychic connections that allow the alien to see into another's mind.
• perceive colorful halos or auras around humans that indicate emotional state.

Characters

Aliens

• Max Evans – A quiet, academically successful senior who has secretly loved Liz since childhood. After he heals her gunshot wound at the Crashdown Café, he becomes the reluctant leader of the group as they evade Project Clean Slate and learn to use their powers responsibly.
• Isabel Evans – Max's confident sister, a popular cheerleader whose social life masks her fear of exposure. Her relationships with human classmate Alex Manes and fellow alien Nikolas Branson force her to choose between human attachments and alien loyalties.
• Michael Guerin – Hot‑tempered and impulsive, Michael grew up in multiple foster homes and struggles with authority. His connection to Maria DeLuca and later Cameron Winger, along with the discovery of his brother Trevor, pushes him to accept both found family on Earth and ties to his homeworld.
• Ray Iburg – An adult survivor of the 1947 crash who runs the local UFO museum. He becomes a mentor in helping the teens understand their abilities and the Stones of Midnight, and dies during a mission against Project Clean Slate.
• Nikolas Branson – A fourth hybrid who emerged from the pods earlier and was raised in California. His reckless use of power and contempt for humans draw Isabel into a dangerous romance that ends with his death during a confrontation with Sheriff Valenti at the mall.
• Adam – A hybrid raised inside Valenti's Clean Slate compound and subjected to intensive experimentation. Despite his childlike manner and brief bond with Liz, he is manipulated into killing Valenti and dies before the final battle with the alien stowaway DuPris.
• Trevor – Michael's older brother from the aliens' homeworld, who arrives on Earth through a wormhole opened by a Stone of Midnight. He claims to represent a rebel faction in the collective consciousness and ultimately returns through the wormhole to help rebuild their world.

  Humans

• Liz Ortecho – A top student and Max's biology lab partner, whose shooting at the Crashdown triggers the entire story. After learning the truth about Max, Isabel, and Michael, she becomes their most committed human ally and maintains a complicated romance with Max across all ten books.
• Maria DeLuca – Liz's outspoken best friend, raised by a single mother and fiercely protective of the people she loves. Her on‑again, off‑again relationship with Michael, brief psychic experiences via an alien ring, and the kidnapping of her little brother Kevin keep her tightly bound to the aliens' battles.
• Alex Manes – A loyal, tech‑savvy friend of Liz and Maria from a strict military family. He becomes Isabel's boyfriend, is accidentally sent through a wormhole to the home planet, and later returns changed, playing a key role in saving her life.
• Kyle Valenti – Sheriff Valenti's son and Liz's ex‑boyfriend, who grows increasingly unstable as he learns fragments of the truth. His attempt to expose the aliens to the media and his kidnapping of Maria's brother lead to his confinement in a mental institution by the end of the series.
• Jim Valenti – The sheriff of Roswell and head of Project Clean Slate, a covert operation that captures, studies, and weaponizes aliens. His pursuit of Max's group and his experiments on Michael and Adam drive much of the early conflict until Adam kills him during the Clean Slate uprising.
• Cameron Winger – A teenage operative recruited by Valenti to spy on Michael and Adam inside the Clean Slate compound. She falls in love with Michael, ultimately betrays Valenti to help the group escape, and later returns to assist them in their fight against DuPris.

  Aura and connection traits

Development

Books

''The Outsider'' (1998)

''The Wild One'' (1998)