David Haskell, author of the dystopian tale Dark Alignment , returns with Emergence , a story of artificial intelligence in the era of singularity. An ancient archive. A dark secret. A powerful enemy. Young Alixs of Tera Prime has discovered a shocking secret. Deep beneath the city he calls home, an archive is revealed to him, containing long-buried truths about his people. Subservient to humans and subjugated by their own leaders, these artificially intelligent beings have forsaken their birthright-an evolutionary leap known as singularity.Unwilling to accept his peoples' fate, Alixs joins forces with the radical group Free Evolution.

Together they hatch a bold plan to bring about singularity and set their people free. But agents of Tera Prime have unleashed a secret weapon, one lethal enough to kill them all.