Rejected as Zero, Crowned as Chancellor

At eighteen, brilliant Nora Bennett is classified as Zero—incapable of connecting to the Core that powers civilization. Her parents cast her into Lower City while pouring everything into her A-Class sister, Vanessa. Ten years later, Nora returns for Vanessa’s lavish Upper City wedding, only to be mocked as the family’s greatest failure. What they don’t know is that Nora never escaped being Zero. She embraced it, invented revolutionary Zero Tech, transformed Lower City, and rose to become High Ch