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Ascend (Paperback)
Quiana Kirkland; Garth Reasby
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Book Three of the Chronicles of Aesirium: The great and
overwhelming Wall which enforces the exile of the people of
Oldtown-Against-the-Wall also protects a substantial secret:
namely, the lives and life which has also proceeded on inside the
Wall. The citizens of Aesirium, protected by the Wall, are content
within their relative ignorance; until a new threat reveals itself
among them. Rom and her friends must investigate and defend
themselves against the mysterious sandmen, following their trail
out beyond the streets of Oldtown, the Wild and into the City of
the Dead.
It is the dawn of the Superhero. Shocked into action by a massive
battle between Awakened criminals and the shadowy government agency
created to protect the nation, the world reacts with both fear and
hope. Jordan Law, former British SIS operative and part of an elite
collection of former spies, soldiers, and operators, must confront
their own concepts of morality as they track down a former teammate
gone rogue. The choices they make will decide whether the Awakened
will be monsters or guardians of humanity. Powers modern and
ancient struggle for control of the new world order, as old
vendettas and ancient plots put Jordan, her team, and her family in
mortal danger. Who can Jordan trust when nobody is who they seem
and everyone has a secret agenda? Terrible sacrifices will be
demanded as the world is forced to Evolve.
The cycle of the year draws to a close. Shomu, the Harvest, is a
time of festivals and celebration, but for NuruSekhmet, it is a
time for vengeance. Reeling from an onslaught of revelations and
betrayal, Nicole Salem and her friends must marshal their courage
to avenge their losses. Pursuing Apep's dark servant from the high
rises of Chicago, to the forests of South America, Nicole and each
of her friends must dig deep and tap unplumbed reserves of
strength. To keep the darkness from continuing to rise, they must
be willing to risk everything and Nicole could end up sacrificing
far more than anyone ever expected.
Achilles. Perseus. Cu Chulainn. Joan of Arc. Their names ring
through the millennia. They were called gods, demons, heroes, the
sons and daughters of divinity. Today, we know their kind by
another word: Superhero. Jordan Law is the best sniper that the
British Secret Intelligence Service has ever seen, possessing a
singular talent for slipping in and out of places that no human
should be able to. She is a woman with a secret, possessing
superhuman strength, speed and reflexes, and the ability to make
herself seemingly disappear into thin air. She is the perfect
operative, an unstoppable assassin. After a successful mission to
eliminate a known terrorist leader, Jordan's secret is discovered
by a shadowy organization within British intelligence. She is drawn
into a covert war where the soldiers are superbeings struggling to
keep their own kind from preying on normal humans. Faced with the
greatest challenges of her life, Jordan must push her own limits to
protect her family, her teammates, and the world from a threat that
has worked behind the scenes since the earliest days of humanity.
Will the cost be her soul?
Book Four of the Chronicles of Aesirium: Two years following the
attacks on Oldtown-Against-The-Wall, Aerthos' new Sheharid Is'iin -
angelic beings responsible for the transport of souls between the
worlds of the living and the dead - has left her childhood home in
search of her senior Reaper, a woman she knows only by the name
Artifice. But what Rom finds instead is a new type of undead
creature - one much harder to kill, and, to her horror, made from
her fellow citizens. Against the plottings of the Queen, Rom must
once again turn to her friends, knowing that only with their help
can they uncover this mystery and defeat the threat these sandmen
pose to them all.
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