Emergence Protocol
Book One of The Blind Spot Trilogy
Marcus Hale has spent fourteen years teaching AP Calculus in New York, convinced that the ladder problem is the most beautiful thing in the curriculum. Then, at ten past noon on an ordinary Tuesday, a pen lifts off his desk, and his first thought is that it’s the coolest thing he has ever seen.
He isn’t the only one. Across the city, people are waking up wrong. Naomi Ashcroft can hear every phone and router for blocks, all at once. Dominic Reyes, a construction foreman, tears a headboard off its bolts without noticing. Tobias Wren, a night-shift nurse, finds he can mend what shouldn’t mend. Selene Voss, a scholar of old Bulgarian manuscripts, walks into her kitchen and finds her dead grandmother sitting at the table.
Five strangers. Thousands more like them. And a polished public-health official named Crowe who has a plan to count every one of them before anyone asks what the count is for.
The powers are real. So is the price: eyesight, knees, sleep, the people who climb the stairs after you. Each of the five has a line they will not cross. Now someone is coming who knows exactly where those lines are.
Grounded, funny, and devastating, Emergence Protocol is the first book of The Blind Spot Trilogy.
Where it happens
Present-day New York, in a March that starts like any other: a high-school classroom, a Bronx apartment, a construction site in Mott Haven, a hospital night shift, a book-lined apartment on Riverside, and a room with not enough chairs.
Who you’ll meet
Marcus Hale is an AP Calculus teacher who can lift things with his attention and is far too delighted about it.
Naomi Ashcroft hears every signal in the city at once and can’t turn it off.
Dominic Reyes is a construction foreman who is suddenly much stronger than the things around him.
Tobias Wren is a night-shift nurse who has always known what a room needs, and now can give it.
Selene Voss is a scholar of old Bulgarian manuscripts who sees what she shouldn’t.
Crowe is a public-health official who believes someone has to keep the list.
For readers of
The Boys · The Umbrella Academy · Brandon Sanderson’s Steelheart · V.E. Schwab’s Vicious
Grounded powers, found family, and every miracle comes with a bill.