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In the former United States, sixteen-year-old Noam Álvaro wakes up within a hospital bed, the sole survivor from the viral magic that killed his family and made him a technopath. His capability to control technology attracts the attention of the minister of defense and thrusts him in to the magical elite of the country of Carolinia.

The son of undocumented immigrants, Noam has spent his existence fighting for the rights of refugees fleeing marvelous outbreaks—refugees Carolinia routinely deports with vicious efficiency. Sensing ways to make transformation, Noam allows the minister’s offer to teach him the technology behind his magic, secretly likely to utilize it against the federal government. But he meets the minister’s son—cruel, harmful, and achingly gorgeous—and the way forward becomes much less clear.

Caught between his purpose and his center, Noam must decide who he may trust and how far he’s willing to go in search of the greater good.