In the neon-drenched sub-levels of Neo-Veridia, Nova lives by one rule: keep your head down and your tech off the Syndicate's grid. But a late-night salvage run changes everything when she unearths a mysterious, unpowered metallic sphere.The moment it touches her skin, the artifact bonds to Nova, transforming her into a living conduit of raw, volatile energy.With the Syndicate's elite enforcers closing in and the strange power threatening to tear her apart from the inside out, Nova must go on the run. To survive, she’ll have to outsmart a global surveillance state, master an ability she doesn’t understand, and trust the one person she shouldn't: a cynical rebel with a dangerous past of his own.The city thinks it can contain her. They're about to learn what happens when a Nova explodes.