Bøger af Ashley Wrigley

Lotus Maze is the largest city-nation on the warped earth, encompassing the surface world of Anshar and the underground city called the Mine. The megacorporation Mirax rules Anshar, reinforcing the law with deadly agents called angels, while the black market merchants of Black Tuesday keep the Mine and its inhabitants in line with their cogwheeler thugs. Though these opposing corporations are in a constant state of war, they share a mysterious enemy: the Keepers of the Balance. A prophecy uttered by the Oracle brings Shade, a Keeper assassin, and Knick Coltin, an ex-angel turned cogwheeler, together in a struggle against fate. Convinced that Knick is "the one" an ancient prophecy promised would come, Shade rebels against her orders to kill him, exposing the traitors in the sacred Order of Keepers, a revelation that propels the world into an unknown future. Meanwhile, Otto Ferés, a small town garbage collector, begins having dreams of a girl calling out to him for help. Unable to rest, he abandons his quiet life to find and save her.

In a race against the clock counting down to the Awakening, Knick and Shade are forced to run the King's Way in search of the answers that will lead them to Mesopotamia, to the sleeping power known as Tiamat. As they search for the five Tribes of Typhi who guard the pieces of the secret to the ancient city, Jilk and his friends are tasked with keeping the Enoch safe from the ex-Regent, whose loyalists seek both her and a long lost relic to empower their hunt for Mesopotamia. Meanwhile, the remaining Keepers struggle to delay an inevitable war between the angels and cogwheelers, a war which will significantly tip the Balance.