The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Vampire Academy and
Bloodline series returns with the second installment in her acclaimed
Age of X series.
Religious investigator Justin March and Mae Koskinen--the beautiful
supersoldier assigned to protect him--have been charged with
investigating reports of the supernatural and the return of the gods,
both inside the Republic of United North America and out. With this
highly classified knowledge comes a shocking revelation: Not only are
the gods vying for human control, but the elect--special humans marked
by the divine--are turning against one another in bloody fashion.
Their mission takes a new twist when they are assigned to a diplomatic
delegation headed by Lucian Darling, Justin's old friend and rival,
going into Arcadia, the RUNA's dangerous neighboring country. Here, in a
society where women are commodities and religion is intertwined with
government, Justin discovers powerful forces at work, even as he
struggles to come to terms with his own reluctantly acquired deity.
Meanwhile, Mae--grudgingly posing as Justin's concubine--has a secret
mission of her own: finding the illegitimate niece her family smuggled
away years ago. But with Justin and Mae resisting the resurgence of the
gods in Arcadia, a reporter's connection with someone close to Justin
back home threatens to expose their mission--and with it the divine
forces the government is determined to keep secret.