Since the age of fourteen Damon Leiter has had a brain-computer interface implanted beneath his skull to correct a neurological disorder. As a teenager, it branded him as an outcast—as an adult it endows him with extraordinary abilities: he may represent the next step in human evolution. When computerized brain augments replace smartphones as the must-have status item, mega-corporations and governments conspire together and marketing becomes mind control. Damon is the only one equipped to lead a global resistance movement. Caught between the fervour of his followers and the tide of rampant consumerism, he can’t be sure he isn’t playing into the hands of the rich and powerful. They may even be in the right. Maybe the real enemy of humankind is Damon Leiter.

Dylan Knox is not the man he was. He may be like no man who ever existed. Brooke’s old flame doesn’t remember her. Worse, he behaves like different people at any given moment. A victim of a brain injury? Or an imposter—an assassin targeting Brooke’s boss, the secretary-general of the United Nations? Dylan’s tale of castaways in time and space is utter fantasy. Unless it’s too crazy not to be true. Brooke’s obsessive quest for the truth will shatter her every belief, and leave her with an unthinkable choice: trust, or betrayal. And falling in love is the last thing she needs.

The glowing structure at the bottom of a lonely northern lake is not of this Earth. But Michael Hart can’t stay away. His encounter will leave him utterly changed, with astonishing new abilities and a destiny he could never have imagined. From then on, the choices he makes will affect the very future of humanity, and Michael will either become a hero, or the greatest traitor the world has ever known. Because he is no longer alone, not even in his own body. There is another. Naïda.