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First element: One weary nurse holds the power of a lonely creator to heal or unmake the world

First element: One weary nurse holds the power of a lonely creator to heal or unmake the world

Knight, Michael

Paperback

Science Fiction

ISBN13: 9798254780915
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 3 2026
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When every screen on Earth flickers to life with a message from an extra-dimensional Architect named Silas, humanity's reality shatters. Silas hasn't come to conquer; he's come to find a surrogate.

Evelyn Sterling is the last person who wants to be a god. As a cynical hospice nurse in Lansing, Michigan, she's spent years watching life fade away, leaving her hollowed by grief and nihilism. But when Silas chooses her to carry his 'light'-a fragment of creative power that can rewrite the fundamental laws of physics-Evelyn becomes the most valuable and dangerous person on the planet.

Now, she is a target. Director Alistair Crane and his clandestine Aegis task force see Evelyn not as a savior, but as a rogue biological asset to be weaponized. As a global manhunt closes in, Evelyn must rely on a former nun and a rogue journalist to help her navigate a world terrified of her existence.

With her own jaded emotions threatening to destabilize the cosmic energy she carries, Evelyn must decide: Is human mercy strong enough to hold back the tide of a lonely creator's experiment? The first element of creation is in her hands, and the cost of failure is the end of humanity itself.

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