Mind Storms - Paperback

by G. Michael Smith (Author)

She can slow time to zero.
She can rewrite reality.
And someone wants to live inside her body.

Jayne Wu is thirteen years old - and already dangerous.

As an apprentice fixer inside the artificial biomes that keep humanity alive, she has a secret: she can enter a mental state she calls the bubble - where time nearly stops and every outcome can be calculated... and controlled.

But Jayne isn't just gifted.

She was engineered.

Hidden inside her brain is something unprecedented - a mind capable of sustaining two consciousnesses at once. To the powerful and the dying, she isn't a girl.

She's a vessel.

When a shadow network known as the Forevers begins hunting her, Jayne is pulled into a conspiracy built on stolen identities, erased lives, and a terrifying promise: immortality by overwrite.

And they've already proven it works.

Captured and strapped into a neural transfer system, Jayne faces the ultimate violation - her mind being erased and replaced in real time.

But inside the bubble... she fights back.

Because if she loses, she won't just die.

She'll still be alive - watching someone else live her life.

And what's coming next may be even worse.

A cosmic threat is approaching Earth.
The Forevers are only the beginning.
And Jayne may be the only one who can stop what's coming.

MINDSTORMS is a high-concept sci-fi thriller perfect for fans of Blake Crouch, Neal Stephenson, and Black Mirror - blending cutting-edge neuroscience, identity warfare, and a relentless fight for control of the human mind.