Allie Taylor harbored a fascination with seers for as long as she can remember. A second, psychic race discovered on Earth, seers are exotic, beautiful, hyper-sexual, dangerous as hell, and really danged expensive to own. Unfortunately, a lot of the world doesn't share Allie's enthusiasm for them. As more and more Seers appear on the streets of San Francisco where she lives, protests have broken out. Seers can't venture into public without papers issued by their owners and a collar restraining their psychic sight, but that's not enough to calm the anti-seer fanatics. They want all the Seers dead, or banished from the United States forever. When Allie travels to New York to see her boyfriend's band, she gets caught in a terrorist attack. She's saved by a man she's never seen before, a tall, mysterious stranger with pale, glass-like eyes and black hair, who seems to crop up everywhere she turns. Meanwhile, someone starts leaving her cryptic, vaguely threatening notes about the end of the world, and her boyfriend starts blowing her off for one of his lame band groupies.Then things get a lot worse. A bizarre religious cult targets Allie for an end of the world ritual, and her visit to New York goes from bizarre to potentially fatal. ** A different version of this novel was previously titled "New York" THE BRIDGE AND SWORD SERIES is a dark, gritty psychic warfare epic from a USA TODAY and WALL STREET JOURNAL bestselling author. Set in an alternate version of Earth where a second race of beings called "Seers" live alongside humans, this is for fans of romantic, character-driven science fiction and fantasy worlds, filled with twists and turns and backstabbing betrayals, with heroes and villains who are often the same people.