Together the three of them often hang out at "Java, East of Krakatoa" (the local café). Jade Chilton – Jade is the daughter of somewhat wealthy parents and is good friends with Tara and Cent.Tara is part Native American and comes from a broken home.
Tara Bochinclonny – Together with Jade, Tara becomes quick friends with Cent.Her home schooling has more than prepared her educationally but has left her with very little experience with people her own age. Millicent "Cent" Rice – Named after her mother, Cent is the 16-year-old daughter of Davy and Millie.She shares her husband's ability and uses it to provide "instant" disaster relief and humanitarian aid around the world. David Rice – Has the ability to "jump" instantaneously to any location that he can visualize accurately.When Hyacinth Pope, from the group that has been trying to capture or kill David and his family, returns, she captures Cent, but Cent's innate ability to jump in place and add velocity allows her to escape. Cent learns to jump in place and add momentum/velocity as she arrives, resulting in the ability to throw herself into the air. Her family relocates to a small town so that she can meet friends, but when they do, all three of them get wrapped up in a criminal conspiracy that grows larger as they investigate it. When she triggers an avalanche while snowboarding without permission, she learns that she, like her parents, has the ability to jump, after she suddenly finds herself in her own bedroom. Here they live in isolation, hiding from the people who took her father captive and tortured him to gain control over his innate teleportation abilities, and from the government agencies who want to use them for their own ends.Ĭent decides that home schooling is stultifying and she wants a normal life with friends. They have relocated to a remote opulent lodge-style home in the north of Canada, bought from a billionaire who lost his wealth in the dot com crash. The protagonists of the previous novels, David (Davy) Rice and his wife Millicent (Millie) Harrison-Rice, now have a teenage daughter, called "Cent" after her mother. A sequel to Impulse, called Exo, was published on 9 September 2014. The first two novels ( Jumper and Reflex) tell a connecting story which is continued in Impulse. Impulse is a 2013 novel by Steven Gould, the third novel in the Jumper series and the fourth in the "Jumper" universe.
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