It's the Sovereign Era, when the sudden appearance of men and women with remarkable powers -- Sovereigns -- changes the course of history and threatens the balance of power in the late 20th century... and Tony Fallow has a sticky problem: everything that isn't bolted down wants to literally be near him!

Fearing he must be a Sovereign, Tony travels to the Donner Institute for Sovereign Studies in the hope of being cured.

But as he tells his story to a human doctor working at the Institute, the boorish Tony soon finds his problem might be more complicated than he suspected, and bigger trouble than he could have imagined..!

ABOUT THE SOVEREIGN ERA

THE SOVEREIGN ERA is Matthew Wayne Selznick's ongoing alternate history series presenting a mosaic of novels and stories detailing how the presence of super-humans changed the last decades of the twentieth century and the future of humanity.

THE SOVEREIGN ERA READING ORDER

0) Hazy Days and Cloudy Nights: "How It All Got Started" (free online serial)

1) Brave Men Run

2) "The World Revolves Around You"

3) The Sovereign Era: Year One

4) "Canary In A Coal Mine"

5) Pilgrimage

6) "The News From Bewilder Pond"