The first element (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798233642104)

When every screen on Earth flickers to life with a message from an extra-dimensional Architect named Silas, humanity's reality shatters. Silas hasn't come to conquer; he's come to find a surrogate.

Evelyn Sterling is the last person who wants to be a god. As a cynical hospice nurse in Lansing, Michigan, she's spent years watching life fade away, leaving her hollowed by grief and nihilism. But when Silas chooses her to carry his 'light'-a fragment of creative power that can rewrite the fundamental laws of physics-Evelyn becomes the most valuable and dangerous person on the planet.

Now, she is a target. Director Alistair Crane and his clandestine Aegis task force see Evelyn not as a savior, but as a rogue biological asset to be weaponized. As a global manhunt closes in, Evelyn must rely on a former nun and a rogue journalist to help her navigate a world terrified of her existence.

With her own jaded emotions threatening to destabilize the cosmic energy she carries, Evelyn must decide: Is human mercy strong enough to hold back the tide of a lonely creator's experiment? The first element of creation is in her hands, and the cost of failure is the end of humanity itself.