Charisma

What makes them beautiful is what makes them dangerous.

“Charisma”. Not just a word, but a power: the ability to harvest the fascination of others, and to use it to not only turn heads but change minds.

The charismatics among us have risen high, but now they want more power that seems just out of their reach—to change more than minds, but also reality itself.

Yulia’s a charismatic, but far from the top. Her bar was meant to be a place where charismatics could learn better things than only how to lord it over others. But the charismatic rat race is about to swallow Yulia whole. Whatever the folks at the top are hatching, it’s going to leave her powerless … along with everyone else who’s not at the top.

Desperate times call for desperate plans. And Yulia’s new plan is outrageous enough to work: Steal the artifacts used by the top charismatics to fuel their ugly dreams, and make real her own vision of a world where charisma is more than a selfish flex.

Funny thing about power, though: Once you have it, you find out more about yourself—and everyone around you—than you ever dreamed …

 Date of original publication: October 2026

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