This first book of a new sci-fi series introduces an alternate earth where powerful Threads have the power to alter reality as we know it. Threads. Quantum Strings that can change reality. Thanks to a powerful Machine created by his father, Darwin is one of the few that has been gifted the rare abil
Threader
β Scribed by Rebekah Turner
- Publisher
- Harlequin Enterprises, Australia Pty Ltd; Harlequin Teen
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 155 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Sydney, NSW
- ISBN
- 1760374431
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Welcome to the Helios Academy: evolve or die
It's the year 2050 and life is increasingly hard for 'non-citizens'. A slowly emerging young minority has been exposed as 'talents'; they harbour mutations that give them special gifts - super strength, regenerative powers, psychic gifts or the ability to sink through shadows and travel through time and space. As governments unite to form a global talent registry and powerful corporations step in to take control, a 'talent' can be a passport to citizenship and a better life, but there is a cost as Josie Ryder is about to discover.
Orphaned at six, Josie Ryder has been raised by her uncle. Her talent is an unusual one: she is a threader, able to weave a combination of psychic talents around others to manipulate their powers. Working in her uncle's antique store and dreaming of a better life, Josie has done everything to keep a promise to her late father: stay off the global talent registry and keep...
β¦ Subjects
Psychic ability -- Juvenile fiction
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