Rough Passages

Super-powered grandmothers, elemental Marines, and extraordinary teens:Enter a world where every midlife crisis might become a national emergency.Ever since one disastrous night during World War 2, a third of the world's population has carried the potential to "e;roll into power."e; No one can predict which few will actually go through the change, and there's only one, tragic certainty: rolling before the age of forty is a death sentence. Passing into middle age might be uneventful, marked only by extra candles on your birthday cake, but it might lead to becoming a human fireball, drowning a city, or teleporting into outer space. Rough Passages presents the stories of five people forever changed and connected by the powers that disrupt their lives:1. A single mother with two jobs whose new talent changes her life beyond her wildest dreams.2. A Marine captain tasked with investigating the all-too-human crimes a squad of super-powered soldiers can commit.3. A lonely woman whose desperate homesickness is matched in strength only by her ability to wreak seismic havoc.4. A grandmother, torn from home and family, abused and imprisoned, who must choose between revenge and forgiveness.5. A teenager afraid to take the R-factor test that will define her future, who learns there are worse things to fear than a positive result.