Blue Spark

Book Three in The Powers That Be trilogy from author & artist John Hopkins, THE BLUE SPARK, paints an action-packed and thought-provoking vision of a post-invasion future world with humankind's destiny on a razor's edge between ethics and science, loyalty and betrayal, hope and despair, courage and fear.* * *Maverick archeologist Professor Ian Dury receives a one-foot cubed artifact ¿with a mysterious purpose from a supernatural visitor.* * *Five years later, robotics legend Mitsuo Kobayashi purloins the cube's latent power, projecting a young woman's body and soul into sixteen replicant sisters before the disastrous consequences of playing God laid bare his hubris.* * *Rachel and Owen Haig raise their precocious daughter, Hannah, out of the public eye until life-shattering events spiral their extraordinary lives asunder.* * *Assuming command of The Powers That Be, Andrew corrupts post-invasion plans of a utopian new world order, precipitating ancient alien hybrids ¿returning to resurrect their pre-human advanced civilization.* * *25-year-old Hannah Haig leads a solitary life in 2070 as a drone tech aboard Thundercorp No. 5 when a terror attack sends the moon-like orbiting warehouse back to Earth in a fiery cascade. A month later, estranged from her mother ¿and stricken with survivor's guilt, Hannah's Blue Spark inheritance turns her ¿world upside down in a violent and ironic twist of fate.* * *On the blue planet forever altered by cataclysmic upheavals, something stirs within the enigmatic cube buried beneath the sands of time.