Reviewer
Amanda
September 2005
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Rowan's bad day ended in a nightmare from which she might never awaken. On her way home from a too-long
day at work, she spots firelight flickering in an abandoned house. When she stops to check it out, she meets
a group of paranormal investigators, and flees in panic, lest they discover that she's a "freak". However,
their instruments did detect her abilities, and their leader, Justin Delgado, hopes that he can reconnect
with Rowan before their enemies snare her.
Unfortunately, Rowan is already a target, and her loved ones land squarely in the crossfire. She is
only barely rescued by The Society, a group of paranormally skilled individuals at war with
the Sigs, their antithesis. The Sigs want to use people like Rowan to rule the world. The Society is
Rowan's only hope of survival. Learning to use her gifts and work with them is her one chance to avenge
the deaths of her father and best friend. As the months pass, she and Justin become an item, with the
connection they share making her adeptness increase. Then, something terrible happens.
Rowan manages to be a paradox, both weak and strong at the same time, making her a unique heroine who
redefines strength. This book will have you on the edge of your seat as a new world unfolds. In fact,
at the end, you might fall off that edge, because the cliffhanger end will leave you begging for more.
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Synopsis
The black-ops government agency called Sigma broke Justin Delgado, trained his
psionic talent and turned him into a killer. Then he escaped and joined the
Society, an underground resistance movement of psions determined to use their
talents to bring Sigma down. Competent, cold, and cruelly efficient, he's the
best operative the Society has, a legend among the psions who fight a shadow war
against an enemy that owns the courts, the press, and the police. Feared even by
his own teammates, hunted by the government, and too damaged to feel anything
but clinical rage, he is utterly alone-until he meets Rowan.
When Rowan Price stumbles across Delgado’s team in an abandoned house, he is
assigned to make contact with her, bring her in, and keep her alive-because
Rowan is one of the most powerful psychics the resistance has ever encountered.
She possesses a talent that can heal shattered minds and broken bodies, or it
can incite riots and revolution. If the government gets its hands on her, she
could very well mean the downfall of the resistance, because nobody, not even
Rowan, is quite sure how far her talents extend or how powerful she could
eventually become. Twenty-four hours after she meets Delgado, her life is
shattered and she's on the run from Sigma. If Sigma can't take her freedom,
they'll settle for her life. She is simply too powerful to be left alone.
The Society will welcome Rowan, if she can stay alive long enough to join
them. Unfortunately, there's a traitor buried in the ranks of the resistance,
ready to betray everything the Society has worked so hard to achieve. If the
Society goes down, Rowan is at risk. God alone knows what Delgado will do to
keep her safe, because Rowan is fast becoming the only thing in the world he
cares about...
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