SURGE

"So you're telling me," she had said to him in gaping disbelief, "you want me"

"Us," he corrected, flicking the burnt card to the floor.

"You want us," she added, "to dress to the nines, roll down to the speakeasies and cheat at Black Jack?"

Chicago in 1922. The city is ruled by a tyrannical energy company called The Corporation.

Sixteen-year-old Evelyn O'Donnell's family is in shambles when a rogue vehicle mysteriously kills her father. But she suspects something much more sinister in his death, something linked to the rebellion that nearly leveled the city so many years ago. And her karate lessons won't be enough to defend her and her brother when The Corp comes to collect the children of the apocalypse.

Penniless but determined, she meets her brother's friend: the charming and mischievous Black Jack Player, Dante Malachi. Discovering a unique power within her, Evelyn and her new accomplice plot to sting the city's speakeasies and avenge her father's death.

But as the duo join the razzle-dazzle of Chicago's underworld; Evelyn discovers her father had tried to protect her from the dark truth about this city and her past. Evelyn knows she will have to do everything in her power if she ever hopes of reaching their shared dream of a life free from poverty and oppression.

Even if it means joining the mob.

Dettagli