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A battle of wills. A sinister deal. And the rise of a formidable enemy…

When the Camaraderie’s superweapon retaliated against its creators, it transformed into Legion, a collective of malevolent spirits that brutally massacred every faction’s army and forced the world’s superpowers into hiding. Jenna Nickleson, a rebel with the equivalent of a psychic parasite buried in her head, can’t shake that she may have inadvertently brought this monster to power. But she is determined to keep the peace within the newly-formed Alliance for the sake of protecting the remaining world.

Her brain seed has other ideas. It spreads through her mind like an invasive weed, intent on claiming Legion’s power for itself by twisting her personality to match its tyrannical predecessor. Her last hope of saving herself, the Alliance, and her remaining friends, is to trust the only telepath who’s proven capable of subduing the seed—an elderly Camaraderie butler with questionable morals.

The seed warns her that this butler’s intentions are more sinister than he lets on… and Jenna agrees. She’s simply out of options. With Legion dangerously interested in the seed’s knowledge, and the return of an enemy bent on collecting Jenna’s spirit for his own cruel purposes, time is running out. She needs the forbidden ally.

But how can she trust the telepath’s schemes when she can’t even trust herself?