Maybe you don't need to have a power to be powerful.
Kai is a powerful prince, trained to kill. Paedyn is an ordinary girl who survives pretending to power. When the two paths meet by chance, they don't imagine they will be opponents in brutal magical competition. Nor will they find themselves involved in a forbidden and dangerous romance (feature_four as impossible as it is inevitable.
Only the Notables are accepted in the kingdom of Ilya. The diverse powers that they possessed for decades have been granted by the Plague, and those born Commons are just that (feature_four common. When the king decreed that anyone without special ability to be chased and banned, Paedyn Gray became a criminal by fate and thief by necessity.
Surviving in favelas without having power is not simple, and Paedyn knows it better than anyone. Trained to lie, she presents herself as a Psychic, camouflaging as best as possible amongst others. Until the day it saves the life of Kai, one of Ilya's princes. Suddenly she finds herself summoned to the ExPurge Examples, a competition meant to show off the powers of the Remarkables (feature_four exactly what she doesn't. To make it worse, Kai is one of his opponents, and it is increasingly difficult to ignore the attraction that grows between the two. The reality is that if the Evidence doesn't kill Paedyn, Kai is sure to do it when he discovers that it is… completely Ordinary.
New York Times best seller and BookTok darling, Powerless is the first book in an exciting trilogy that's earning readers around the world. With a sure combination of costume and romance, Lauren Roberts reflects on a woman's journey to find her own strength.