Merlin Woods: Fortune Hunter

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After the Cataclysm nearly wiped out humanity, the remnants survived in Havens: city-sized constructs built to reboot society and usher in a new age of humanity.

However, the new age was not the type the architects had envisioned. The same greed and lust for power that existed before the Cataclysm resurfaced, and the Havens quickly became quagmires of political and economic conflict that threatened to destroy the future envisioned by the Haven's founders.

This is the world of a girl with many gifts: sired by an Elite super-soldier, raised by a famed assassin. She is genetically superior, exceptionally talented, and lethal in combat. She will be feared and hunted by those threatened by her existence. She will be forced to fight for her survival. And in the end, friends and foes alike will know her name.

She is…

I leaped out of a plane at an altitude of fourteen thousand feet over the Saint Francis Haven. The cargo plane rumbled by as more skydivers jumped from its interior. I immediately nosedived, rapidly accelerating to two-hundred-seventy miles per hour as I streaked toward the city. Normally I would have taken it all in, absorbed the freefall sensation, and the incredible view of the world's massiveness. The feeling was like nothing in the world — adrenaline and astonishment wrapped together so tightly that I couldn't tell where one ended and the other began. For a few precious minutes, I soared and felt like nothing was impossible.

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