Strangers in the Stars

In the days after the first humans became Ascended, the world held its breath. A month later, over 2 million people had died. As people gained their powers seemingly at random, it became an individual's choice whether they cared for the sanctity of human life; many didn't. Some decided to protect the people they cared about, many more used their newfound abilities to chop down the rotten nations which has wronged them. The world's governing bodies fell apart and, in the centuries since, any small, tenuous peace has been liable to be broken by a single person with a mission.

Freshly back from the dead and now sharing a body, Cole and Holland will have to navigate a world which no longer has a space for either of them. As Cole convinces herself that no one would believe she has another soul talking in her head, she nevertheless makes contact with her former friends and family. When the people she cares so desperately for begin to hunt her down, Cole will struggle to hide her true self, fight to suppress the remnants of an ancient cult, and fail to keep the people she loves out of harm's way.