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William Hawk is lying in a pod, peering through its translucent cover and watching a series of images from the parallax flicker on the ceiling above him. The last image he sees is of a tropical field... Suddenly, his pod is gone, and he finds himself in that field, in the body of an ancient Mayan who's being hunted by Spanish conquistadors. For the next 500 breaths, William will literally live in the skin-and experience the peril-of another person from another time. Part of a five-person team organized by the Ancient Engineer, William is charged with learning empathy and compassion during these brief "snaps," or tag-alongs. Living in a different person's body and in a different era in time with each one, William and the others -including the girl he loves, Grace-take another step closer to achieving Change Agent 3 status. By doing so they receive enlightenment and are granted superhuman powers they could use to change the world for the better. But there's a ca...

If you flip on the news, it’s clear: our world has no shortage of evil brewing. With hate and violence spreading so fluidly, it can be difficult to set our compass straight on the path of morality, courage and love.   Ignition , a new work of Speculative YA fiction penned by an anonymous author writing under the pen name William Hawk, aims to do just that: provide a compass and space for reflection. On protagonist William Hawk’s sixteenth birthday, his “boring” life as a seemingly average teen interested in girls, cars and food gets turned upside down. His Change Agent III status, which until now he knew nothing about, suddenly activates at 12:27 p.m. -- complete with strange powers and a responsibility to save Earth from evil. Just months before, on her sixteenth birthday, Grace’s Change Agent III status revealed a horrible truth: her malevolent twin brother, Roland, is actually Roivas, a dark master capable of destroying the world. After years of being mistreated by ...