Gifted & Talented

有遺囑的地方，就有戰爭。


《The Atlas Six》紐約時報暢銷作家奧利維．布雷克（Olivie Blake）全新力作——《Gifted & Talented》，講述三兄妹在父親過世後，如何面對彼此長年積累的競爭心態、危險的超能力，以及那些未竟的青少年天賦所帶來的沉重壓力。

天才兄妹的愛恨與野心
誰能登上王座？

泰爾・溫（Thayer Wren），溫法科技（Wrenfare Magitech）的天才執行長，現代科技之父，已經去世。他的三個孩子——擁有心靈感應與電動力的天賦——每一個都可能成為溫法王座的繼承人。

至少，他們自己是這麼認為的。

梅瑞迪絲（Meredith），標準模範長女，也是自己創辦的突破性生技公司的掌舵人，最近剛剛「治癒了精神疾病」。不客氣！然而，父親的財富卻是她最後的希望，因為她必須阻止記者前男友揭露她真正的面目——一個徹頭徹尾的騙子。

亞瑟（Arthur），史上第二年輕的國會議員，日復一日為正義奮戰。但他的妻子可能要離開他，他的連任競選也岌岌可危。也許，已故父親的認可——以溫法王座的一席之地——能夠讓他扭轉這艘正在下沉的船。

艾莉德（Eilidh），曾經是世界上最著名的芭蕾舞者，在一場改變人生的傷病後，過去五年她只能在父親的公司裡擔任一名平凡的行銷主管。雖然她的成就遠不及兄姊，但如果父親把一切都留給她，這將成為對她價值的最終肯定——證明她一直都是父親最愛的孩子。

從「天才神童」到「臨床憂鬱成人」的這條路上，沒有贏家——但究竟是哪位溫家人會笑到最後？

這是一部令人上癮的當代奇幻小說，關於家庭、扭曲的愛與危險的祕密，出自一位正值巔峰的作家之手。

rom the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six, Gifted & Talented by Olivie Blake is the story of three siblings who, upon the death of their father, are forced to reckon with their long-festering rivalries, dangerous abilities and the crushing weight of all their unrealized adolescent potential.
Where there’s a will, there’s a war.Thayer Wren, the brilliant CEO of Wrenfare Magitech and so-called father of modern technology, is dead. Any one of his three telepathically and electrokinetically gifted children would be a plausible inheritor to the Wrenfare throne.

Or at least, so they like to think.

Meredith, textbook accomplished eldest daughter and the head of her own groundbreaking biotech company, has recently cured mental illness. You're welcome! If only her father's fortune wasn't her last hope for keeping her journalist ex-boyfriend from exposing what she really is: a total fraud.

Arthur, second-youngest congressman in history, fights the good fight every day of his life. And yet, his wife might be leaving him, and he's losing his re-election campaign. But his dead father’s approval in the form of a seat on the Wrenfare throne might just turn his sinking ship around.

Eilidh, once the world's most famous ballerina, has spent the last five years as a run-of-the-mill marketing executive at her father’s company after a life-altering injury put an end to her prodigious career. She might be lacking in accolades compared to her siblings, but if her father left her everything, it would finally validate her worth – by confirming she'd been his favorite all along.

On the pipeline of gifted kid to clinically depressed adult, nobody wins—but which Wren will come out on top?

This is a compulsive contemporary fantasy of family, twisted love and dangerous secrets from a writer at the height of her powers.