2014 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee)
Chapter 11 is watching you.
Silver is an intelligence operative working for an agency that doesn't officially exist-beyond any government and above the law. Chapter 11 is the kind of place a person can join but never leave. And it keeps a third of the world's population under constant surveillance. At work. On the street. In their homes.
Why? Because of Shaman syndrome.
One in three people are born with Shaman syndrome, which endows them with abilities they cannot control and do not even know they have. It is Chapter 11's responsibility to cap and surveil these walts-as they are known-to ensure their talents don't turn ugly for the ordinary people around them.
After Silver's partner, Dark, is seriously injured by a walt, Silver is driven to investigate. What starts as a routine investigation isn't as clear-cut as it seems, especially when she discovers there's a price on her head.
Chapter 11 might be watching the world, but it can't see the division in its own ranks. Someone wants the white list-the list of every known walt that Chapter 11 has capped-but for what purpose? Silver needs to find out the secret behind Shaman syndrome, before it's too late.
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Silver is an intelligence operative working for an agency that doesn't officially exist-beyond any government and above the law. Chapter 11 is the kind of place a person can join but never leave. And it keeps a third of the world's population under constant surveillance. At work. On the street. In their homes.
Why? Because of Shaman syndrome.
One in three people are born with Shaman syndrome, which endows them with abilities they cannot control and do not even know they have. It is Chapter 11's responsibility to cap and surveil these walts-as they are known-to ensure their talents don't turn ugly for the ordinary people around them.
After Silver's partner, Dark, is seriously injured by a walt, Silver is driven to investigate. What starts as a routine investigation isn't as clear-cut as it seems, especially when she discovers there's a price on her head.
Chapter 11 might be watching the world, but it can't see the division in its own ranks. Someone wants the white list-the list of every known walt that Chapter 11 has capped-but for what purpose? Silver needs to find out the secret behind Shaman syndrome, before it's too late.
Genre: Urban Fantasy
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