17: Part 4

Previously published as 17 Part 4 by Ricky Rivers.War doesn't start with a battle. It starts with a broadcast.A coordinated strike has pushed the world's most powerful factions into open conflict, and the people caught between them are running out of room to stay neutral. While leaders fight to control the story of the war, seventeen-year-old Emmett Klein is already reaching his limit.His power is becoming harder to hold together. His brother Rainer is slipping farther away. And the fragile family Emmett has built with Danielle and Kyab barely has time to recover before they are pulled toward a battlefield formed around the wreckage of a fallen airship.Inside the ruins, every alliance carries a price. Old enemies have reasons to cooperate. Friends disagree over how far protection should go. Powerful people are being treated as weapons, symbols, and bargaining chips by forces that understand exactly how fear can be used.Emmett has survived stronger opponents before. This time, strength may be the least important thing he has.As the conflict closes around him, he will have to decide what he is willing to sacrifice to keep the people he loves from becoming pieces in someone else's war.17: Part 4 is a YA-readable superpowered dystopian thriller about war, control, fractured alliances, family, and the cost of deciding who gets to choose for someone else.