Alienated by everything that sets him apart, Aidan McBrien suffers in silence. He is the most powerful Immortal of his generation, but he chooses to live behind a mask to protect himself, even from those he loves. They can never know how much he struggles just to get through each day, overwhelmed by the pain and loss of everyone around him. As Aidan fights a constant battle to control the gifts that threaten to push him over the edge, he dreads the day his world will look to him to fulfill a prophecy he doesn’t believe in.

Allie Carmichael is dying inside and she doesn't even realize it. Half a world away, she endures the same isolation Aidan experiences, but in complete ignorance of her true nature. As she forges a hesitant friendship for the first time in years, Allie sees a tiny glimmer of the life she wants, and the person she wants to be, but her instincts tell her the timing is all wrong.

Allie and Aidan's paths are about to converge. With others making decisions for them, will they ever truly understand the immeasurable power they posses, or the prophecy that might not be about Aidan after all?

Recommended listening order:

• Emerge: The Awakening (Book 1)
• Emerge: The Edge (Book 1.5)
• Emerge: The Scholar (An Illustrated Character Journal)
• Emerge: The Volunteer (An Emerge Short Story)
• Emerge: The Judgment (Book 2)
• Emerge: The Captive (Book 3)
• Emerge: The Catalyst (Short Story available in the Emerge boxset)
• Emerge: The Assignment (An Emerge novella, available in the Emerge boxset)
• Emerge: The Heir (Book 4)
• Emerge: The Betrayal (Book 5)