Survival in Nirvana Citadel means walking past the dying. One black-market apothecary drags a brutally injured amnesiac to safety instead — and the city calls it a death sentence.
Orphaned at eight and surviving the radioactive slums of Nirvana Citadel in disguise, Morgan Chase has clawed her way to one modest dream: scrape together enough as a black-market apothecary to escape the underground for good. That dream ends the night she hauls a brutally injured stranger to safety — a frail, amnesiac girl with no memory and powers no one in this city can explain, carrying a price on her head that makes everything Morgan has built instantly worthless.
An ancient catastrophe detonates across the sky, plunging the planet into an endless, lawless night. Every faction Morgan has spent years avoiding closes in on them both, hunting the girl and the dangerous secrets she carries. Morgan runs, fights, and bleeds — but the deeper she goes to protect someone she should never have saved, the more she suspects this stranger isn't just the reason she's being hunted. She might be the reason everything is falling apart.
Will Morgan abandon the girl the world wants erased — or burn down the only life she knows to protect her?
From Jennifer Wells, author of the thrilling Ethereal Artifacts series, comes a ferocious cyberpunk survival debut where loyalty is the most lethal liability of all. Perfect for fans of The Hunger Games and Altered Carbon, Emergence drops you into a neon-lit warzone and never lets you out.
