A Silent Evil

The MH1 gene has reawakened. After centuries of being urban legend, it emerges in military personnel across the country. Overnight, both officers and cadets develop unique superpowers- hurling fire, controlling the weather, even flying. Suddenly, everything is ablaze. But some who have the gene want to limit it to a worthy few. 

Several months ago, Cadet Katie McMann barely survived a supernatural fight at Norwich University after unexpectedly manifesting with the gene. Knowing that her opponents won’t stop until she’s dead, Katie is afraid the next fight will descend into an all-out war. But she’s also unwilling to simply slink back into obscurity. Instead, she heads across the country, hoping to find other cadets with the gene. At Valley Forge Military Academy, Katie mentors fourteen-year-old Deion Carter, a new cadet who has just started to read other people’s minds. Deion, to his shock, has the MH1 gene.

Together, Katie and Deion race to uncover the origin of the evil they’re fighting. The weapons they need lie in their own family histories- and in the histories of the military personnel they’re up against. But the fire is spreading, and Katie and Deion know it won’t end with trials or the justice system. Together, they prepare for the worst- another confrontation that will scorch them and everything they love.

A Silent Evil is Book 2 of the Vanguard Warrior Trilogy. Book 1 was The Fledgling's Inferno, published in 2020.