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When an epidemic strikes across the globe, it spreads quickly, claiming one victim after another.

"They look like an everyday family living an ordinary life. But beyond the edges of this peaceful farm, unimaginable forces of light and dark have been unleashed.

"In the former United States, sixteen-year-old Noam ?lvaro wakes up in a hospital bed, the sole survivor of the viral magic that killed his family and made him a technopath.

"After the sickness known as the Doom destroyed civilization, magick has become commonplace, and Fallon Swift has spent her young years learning its ways.

"Six months after Noam ?lvaro helped overthrow the despotic government of Carolinia, the Atlantians have gained citizenship, and Lehrer is chancellor.

Ronan, Hennessy, and Bryde are dreamers; Ronan's dreams always seem to end in random destruction, using up the power of the ley lines he cannot even sense; Hennessy makes multiple copies of herself, dreaming them into reality in search of her own fragile identity, and Bryde dreams of power and reordering his companions and the world to his own specifications; their families and duplicates are the collateral damage of their dreams--and meanwhile they are hunted by the "Moderators," led by Carmen Farooq-Lane and the "Visionary" Liliana, determined to destroy the dreamers and save the world.

"All Alice Liddell wants is to escape her Normal life in Oxford and find the parents who abandoned her ten years ago.

Niger, West Africa, 2074. It is an era of tainted technology and mysterious mysticism.

"Coa, who was born feral in the North Transatlantic wilds, has just been captured.

"Elsa is used to hiding the most important parts of herself--her feelings for Rye, her distaste for a world ruled by men, and, most crucially, her gift of songlight.