From New York Times best seller and science fiction and fantasy
mistress of adventure Mercedes Lackey, Book 4 in the pulse-pounding
Secret World saga of modern-day humans with superpowers.
Destroying the Thulian North American Headquarters has not made life
easier for ECHO, or the world. The Thulians continue their attacks,
first in unpredictable incursions, then with another all-out assault on
ECHO, orchestrated against ECHO headquarters across the world. Dominic
Verdigris has not given up on his effort to obtain The Seraphym for
himself, in order to use her to avert his own fate at the hands of the
Thulians. Nor have the heroes of ECHO and the CCCP found life anything
but harder. Belladonna's duties have increased a thousand-fold, and now
she has responsibility for the lives of every metahuman in ECHO on her
conscience. Obviously using the intelligence gathered from the raid on
the North American Thulian base to find the main Headquarters is of
paramount importance--but once it is found, can she manage to convince
the armies of the world to follow ECHO into an all-out attack?
Then Red Saviour risks everything on a risky gambit of her own: send her
wolves of the CCCP to find the Thulian Headquarters, despite the
dangers, and despite the consequences of blowing everything on this
hazardous gambit that could very well end, not in victory, but with the
world in flames.
