The Empowered
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Sixteen-year old Mathilda Brandt just discovered hers: the ability to hear, control and even kill plant life. She will face a stark choice if and when the world learns about her new ability. Either she will have to put on the blue jumpsuit and become an officially sanctioned Empowered member of the Hero Council and follow any and all orders, or instead forswear ever using her power for any reason. Mat decides to keep her power a secret, but then she meets “rogue” Empowered people like herself who are creating a hidden sanctuary. She finally has a place where she can belong and use her power freely.
But if she wants a place to belong, first she must fight to save it.
Renegade is the free prequel to The Empowered series. Read to see what happened when Mat first discovered her superpower.
Sixteen-year old Mathilda Brandt just discovered hers: the ability to hear, control and even kill plant life. She will face a stark choice if and when the world learns about her new ability. Either she will have to put on the blue jumpsuit and become an officially sanctioned Empowered member of the Hero Council and follow any and all orders, or instead forswear ever using her power for any reason. Mat decides to keep her power a secret, but then she meets “rogue” Empowered people like herself who are creating a hidden sanctuary. She finally has a place where she can belong and use her power freely.
But if she wants a place to belong, first she must fight to save it.
Renegade is the free prequel to The Empowered series. Read to see what happened when Mat first discovered her superpower.
I went to prison because I didn’t want to join the Hero Council, become one of the so-called “good guys” and give up my freedom. I just wanted a place where I could be free, with other Empowered “renegades.” My friends died trying to be free, but I was captured and sentenced to Special Corrections.
I just turned twenty-one and have been paroled. But a gang wants to use my power for crime, threatening my family when I refuse. A secretive government agency gives me a choice—go back to prison for life, or work for them, and infiltrate a dangerous criminal group.
Not only is my freedom at stake, but the lives of my grandmother, my sisters, and thousands of others are on the line.
Superhero, alternate history, supernatural suspense, paranormal, and urban fantasy. Free, freebies
I infiltrated the world’s most dangerous Empowered criminal group, the Scourge, and stopped a psychopath from destroying a city. Now, the secretive government agency I work for wants me to help them destroy the Scourge. The Scourge wants to free humanity from the tyranny of the Hero Council.
My grandmother’s life depends on me continuing my mission. But, I uncover manmade plant monsters, and people who have been turned into horrors as part of an evil experiment. An experiment which threatens all life. An experiment the people I work for ignore. They want me to continue their plan of destroying the Scourge from within. Stay in the shadows, they tell me.
I may work in the shadows, but I’m not going to sit by and watch the world be secretly destroyed.
Superhero, alternate history, supernatural suspense, paranormal, and urban fantasy.
Mathilda Brandt is one of the rare few Empowered. She’s just learned that her missing sister is also one. Even more shocking, Mat’s sister belongs to a hidden cult that believes anyone can possess a superpower, in defiance of everything known about the Empowered. If the authorities discover the cult’s whereabouts, they will end the cult and imprison anyone who has joined it.
But finding her sister and learning her secrets could destroy their family, and shatter the world forever.
Empowered: Outlaw is the third book in Dale Ivan Smith’s super-powered urban fantasy series. If you like superheroes and supervillains, but without the capes and masks, you’ll love this fast-paced, suspenseful paranormal thriller featuring a strong female hero.
Superhero, alternate history, supernatural suspense, paranormal, and urban fantasy.
Mathilda Brandt fights to keep her fellow Empowered friends and the Imbued refugees from Sanctuary alive and safe. Environmental disasters are ravaging the world. Her former master, the secretive government agency known as Support, hunts her and the other rogue Empowered and Imbued across the world, seeking to capture or kill them. Only the strange Dark-Net, an extra-dimensional road, keeps Mat and her friends free.
Mat is also desperate to find her mother, who until a few months ago Mat thought was dead. Her mother’s fate is somehow intertwined with the people hunting her, and Mat wants to learn how.
When the Dark-Net begins to fail, Mat realizes she’ll have to do the last thing she ever wanted to do: lead a desperate rebellion to save her mother and free the world.
Superheroes, alternate history fiction, contemporary fantasy, urban fantasy, superhero novels, supernatural suspense, paranormal thriller.
The Empowered series reading order
Book 0 Renegade
Book 1 Empowered: Agent
Book 2 Empowered: Traitor
Book 3 Empowered: Outlaw
Book 4 Empowered: Rebel
Book 5 Empowered: Hero
Mathilda Brandt thought she’d protected her family and freed the world, instead she’s unleashed forces that threaten to destroy both. She rescued her Empowered mother from RAMPART, but now her mother wants Mat to choose sides-- Empowered over normal humans.
Her sister Ava is missing. Governments begin rounding up the newly Empowered, while other Empowered want to end the threat from normals once and for all.
With her own power suddenly erratic, and her connection to Gaia in jeopardy, how can Mat save those she loves and prevent the world from destroying itself?
Empowered: Hero is the fifth and final book in Dale Ivan Smith's The Empowered series.
