Kristina Harley
An empty city street in blue fog at night
Sloane, partly hidden in shadow

THE DEBUT NOVEL

Pure
Intention

She took a DNA test.
They took her best friend.
Then the boy she'd mourned for five years
came back to capture her.

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Sloane surrounded by blue magic

Sloane has always known
when something was wrong.

She called it instinct.

Training.

Luck.

Until her body started knowing things before they happened.
And objects began remembering the people who touched them.

Normal explanations were running out.

It was supposed
to be a joke.

A fake name.
Her best friend's address.
One plastic tube mailed to an ancestry company.

Then the apartment was torn apart.
The sample disappeared.
So did Cass.

She hadn't been arrested.
She had been collected.

They weren't looking for Cass.
They were looking for whoever filled the tube.

Sloane.

THE PROTECTOR

He always
knows first.

Nero was trained to recognize danger.
Sloane was trained to trust him.

Neither of them was prepared for the moment danger started recognizing her.

When Sloane can no longer tell which memories belong to her—
Nero reminds her who she is.

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Some things remember.

A coat carries grief.
A briefcase carries secrets.
Old iron carries the lives of everyone who held it.

And Sloane is beginning to hear all of them.

Abilities she has spent her entire life explaining away.
Until someone else recognizes them.

In an underground station refuge, a girl holds a worn stuffed rabbit beside a younger boy on a milk crate, with families and faint blue magic in the background.

She isn't
the only one.

Different cities.
Different ages.
Different abilities.

The same pattern.

People like Sloane are being identified.
Watched.
Taken.

Someone has been collecting them for years.

A man in black tactical gear, his face emerging from shadow

THE OPERATIVE

Then one of them
found her.

He had the weapon.
He had the orders.
He knew exactly who she was.

SLOANE KNEW HIM TOO.

Max.

The boy she spent summers with playing in the woods and sipping sweet tea.
The boy she loved.
The boy who died five years ago.

Except Max
isn't dead.

He calls himself Unit Seven.
And he's been sent to bring Sloane in.

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The boy she remembers
is still in there.

Maybe.

Sloane speaks with Professor Elias about Max.

Portrait of Sloane

“Could deviation become choice?”

“Possibly.”

The word was too small for the hope it created.

“Then he's still in there.”

“I did not say that.”

“You didn't say he wasn't.”

“Hope is not evidence.”

“No. But evidence is why I have hope.”

Portrait of Max, the subject of the conversation

THE CHOICE

Who gets to decide
what another person becomes?

Max has orders to bring Sloane in.
She still has reasons to believe he can choose.

Pure Intention by Kristina Harley — book cover

A NOVEL OF MAGIC AND REDEMPTION

THE BOOK

Pure Intention

With her best friend missing and the boy she loved sent to capture her, Sloane must confront what is happening to people like her.

She has Nero beside her, abilities she is only beginning to understand, and one impossible reason to hope.

Some things survive death. Some survive what comes after. And some intentions are powerful enough to leave a mark.

How far would you go
to save someone who may
no longer remember you?

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