Spark
She can move things with her mind. Fifty strangers filmed her doing it. Now everyone wants her - caged, crowned, or weaponized.
Maya Reyes is a twenty-two-year-old Chicago bike courier with a secret she has guarded her whole life: she can move things with her mind. Then she stops a runaway truck in the street, in front of fifty phone cameras, and the secret is out. By morning she is the most wanted emergent in America.
The Emergence Response Bureau wants her processed, filed, and locked inside a Haven that does not officially exist. A crew of fugitive emergents breaks her out of a Bureau transport van - but they are not telling her the real reason they chose her. And in the dark, a zealot called the Shepherd is preaching a gospel of fire: a forced global emergence that would free humanity by burning civilization to the ground.
Ordinary people are waking up with extraordinary abilities, and every institution on the planet is panicking. Maya's power is growing faster than her control, and everyone wants to use her - the Bureau that would cage her, the crew that rescued her, and the believers who would crown her. Caught between all of them, she will have to invent a third option before the Bloom begins.
If you love grounded superpower stories where the powers feel real and the choices cost everything, start here. For readers of Naomi Alderman's The Power and Blake Crouch - this is Book 1 of The Emergence Trilogy, and Maya is just getting started.
Perfect for readers who love:
Superpowers in the real world - no capes, no costumesA secret power caught on cameraGovernment conspiracy and a Bureau that officially doesn't existFound-family crews with their own agendaA cult leader preaching an apocalypseA heroine who refuses every side she's offeredSeries starters with the trilogy completeCustomer Reviews
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