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The first element
Paperback
Publisher: Michael Knight
Published: Apr 3 2026
Pages: 316
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
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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