Dawn of the Paladin (eBook)

Tet's fists can shatter titanium. He's not sure he can stop himself from wanting more.

In the aftermath of the refinery assault, there is a change within the Paladin's young engineer. His bones answer to his will as they harden, densify, and turn his body into a weapon no armor can withstand. But the power comes with a hunger that frightens him more than any enemy, and when a fellow Paladin undergoes the same transformation and can't reverse it, the miracle starts to look like a trap.

Meanwhile, the awakening is spreading. Across Tscho, ordinary people are manifesting abilities they can't control - telekinesis, telepathy, electrical discharge - and the Paladin are scrambling to understand a phenomenon that's outpacing their ability to manage it. A brilliant colony scientist named Trinket arrives with answers and a device that can amplify Jun abilities beyond anything thought possible. The cost of using it may be worse than the war it's meant to win.

When Mogul marches eleven warriors to the Academy gates - not to conquer, but to demonstrate - the Paladin discover that the Shune have been creating a terrifying merged consciousness (ten minds fighting as one). And behind Mogul's escalating defiance, his mother Madrak watches from the dark, patient and already reaching through doors the Paladin don't know they've left open.

Fathers and sons. Weapons and addictions. The line between protecting people and controlling them. In the second chapter of the Dawn of the Paladin saga, the question is no longer whether the Paladin can match their enemy's power; it's whether they can survive their own.

Dawn of the Paladin: The Power of the Son - where the greatest danger isn't the enemy at the gates. It's the hunger in your bones.