The Mutant Prime

From the flaps of the Doubleday first edition: "For hundreds of years the mutants lived among us, keeping the secrets of their spectacular psychic abilities safely hidden away. In the early 1990s they came forth to claim their rightful place in the human community - with explosive results. With The Mutant Season, Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber began the spellbinding family chronicle of the Rytons, their mutant heritage and their fight for equality in the normal human world. Now, their story continues. Spring comes to the mutant clans. Now, the mutants begin to emerge from their long, hidden sleep. Slowly, quietly, they have slipped into the paths of ordinary life and become caught up in the everyday problems that face us all, mutant or normal. One career is stalled. Another is threatened by the political need for a scapegoat. The clan must come together again. Michael, trapped in a loveless marriage and facing the blame for a disaster in which he had no part. Melonie, separated from clan and family, fighting to prove her worth in the world of normals. Nariydda, using her fame and wealth as a blind for her mutant identity, trapped in a cage of luxury. Now, from nowhere comes a man who thrusts himself into all their lives - a man who might change the world. Is Victor Ashman the long-awaited, long-sought supermutant - The Mutant Prime? Is he a madman or messiah? Before his frightening powers can turn the normal world against them all, the clan must find him, identify him, and - if necessary - stop him."