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For fans of The Maze Runner and The Fifth Wave, this debut YA novel from Hugo Award winner Will McIntosh pits four underprivileged teens against an evil billionaire in the race of a lifetime. Sully is a sphere dealer at a flea market. It doesn't pay much - Alex Holliday's stores have muscled out most of the independent sellers - but it helps him and his mom make the rent. No one knows where the brilliant-colored spheres came from. One day they were just there, hidden all over the earth like huge gemstones. Burn a pair and they make you a little better: an inch taller, skilled at math, better-looking. The rarer the sphere, the greater the improvement - and the more expensive the sphere. When Sully meets Hunter, a girl with a natural talent for finding spheres, the two start searching together. One day they find a Gold - a color no one has ever seen. And when Alex Holliday learns what they have, he will go to any lengths, will use all of his wealth and power, to take it from them. There's no question the Gold is priceless, but what does it actually do? None of them is aware of it yet, but the fate of the world rests on this little golden orb. Because all the world fights over the spheres, but no one knows where they come from, what their powers are, or why they're here.



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Will McIntosh

Will McIntosh is a science fiction and young adult author, a Hugo award winner and a winner or finalist for many other SF awards. His most recent books are THE CLASSMATE (Middle Grades, February, 2022) , and FALLER (adult Science Fiction from Tor Books) . His novels DEFENDERS and THE CLASSMATE are both currently optioned for film/TV, while LOVE MINUS EIGHTY, about women trapped in a cryogenic dating center, was named the best science fiction book of 2013 by the American Library Association. Will was a psychology professor before turning to writing full-time. Originally from New York, he lives in Williamsburg, Virginia with his wife and their twins.You can follow Will on Twitter: @willmcintoshSF, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WillMcIntoshSF/? fref=tsor on his website: www.willmcintosh.net.



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