Jamie McGuire
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Jamie McGuire
by Jamie McGuire
At the dawn of the Birth Crisis, AI behemoth Hyperion Systems delivered its answer: perfection. Two centuries later, the descendants of those who called it salvation still kneel to its design.
In their city-state of Hyperion Proper, conformity isn’t forced—it’s earned. Adversity has been eliminated, crime is nonexistent, and on their thirtieth birthday, every Sovereign citizen receives a custom-designed partner—a Supplicant—engineered for devotion, built to meet their every want and need.
For Isara Poeima, that partner is Maxim: flawless, breathtaking, irrevocably hers. She’s dreamed of him her entire life, spent nearly a year perfecting him, and now she’s moments away from finally seeing him in person, hearing his voice, feeling her hand in his.
What she doesn’t know—and what Hyperion is desperate to conceal—is that humans weren’t meant to experience life without adversity. Ease may comfort the body, but it emaciates the soul.
In a society polished by prescribed excellence, deviation is quietly discouraged and curiosity walks the edge of treason—both burdens Isara and Maxim quietly carry. But when even a single spark of doubt can threaten the system, her bond with an anomalous Supplicant like Maxim becomes something far more than love: a sanctuary, and a rebellion.
Outside the safety of Hyperion’s wall, a war is brewing—and Maxim and Isara are fated to ignite it, whether they will it or not.
THE SOVEREIGN: PART ONE is a genre-bending blend of sci-fi humanity and dystopian revelation—a story of love, sacrifice, buried truth, and the radical defiance of wanting more than the perfect world you were given.
Jamie McGuire is a #1 New York Times bestselling author obsessed with high stakes, flawed characters, and stories that hit hard and linger.
JAMIE MCGUIRE was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and studied at Northern Oklahoma College, the University of Central Oklahoma, and Autry Technology Center, where she earned a degree in Radiography. She pioneered the New Adult genre with her international bestseller BEAUTIFUL DISASTER and has since continued to captivate readers with a diverse collection of novels spanning contemporary romance, apocalyptic thrillers, paranormal romance, and sci-fi. She made history as the first indie author to land a print deal with Wal-Mart, bringing self-publishing to the shelves of one of the world’s largest retailers. Jamie lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with her son and their somewhat obnoxious Malinois-Lab mix, Coco, while attempting to parent two adult daughters who no longer have to listen to her.
A Beautiful Funeral: A Novel is now a New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal best seller!
