When a lunatic guns down paramedic
Petra Olivier on the shores of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, she makes a deal with
Death and is returned to life in an alternate timeline Salt Lake City with one
goal: save this universe to save her own.
Petra Olivier is a simple paramedic
trying hard to keep people from dying. So when she receives a cryptic note
warning her that someone is attempting to kill her and harm her family, she meets the note’s
author—and he shoots her in the head.
She meets Death, a smarmy computer
programmer who informs her that she died nine months before her time, and he
strikes a deal with her: she must find “a god and a killer” before her fated
death date or this universe and all others will cease to exist.
She wakes up in a defunct nuclear
power plant on the outskirts of a Salt Lake City she is wholly unfamiliar with:
steam power rules the landscape, all citizens follow the strange Faith of the
Hand, and robotic, soulless Paladins serve as the personal bodyguards of the
all-powerful Governor.
Petra is instantly identified as a thing of legend: the Thirteenth Paladin, and the engineer of this world’s destruction. She must escape the Governor and accomplish Death’s mission, but the more she learns of this world’s history, the more her idea of reality unravels as the deadline for all existence approaches.
The Lightning-Maker's Daughter
When Mattie boards an airship to China, she never imagines that her journey to rejoin her estranged father will result in being kidnapped by pirates who say that her father isn't who he claims to be, and that the tattoo on her hand is the key to unlocking the greatest power in the world.
Matilda Pickering-Smyth is trapped: in a loveless engagement, in a lonely London townhouse, and in a passion-free life where everything is planned out for her by her controlling father in China. A sudden summons from her father lands her on an airship liner, where she befriends Yevgeniy, a wealthy businessman with a thick Russian accent and beautiful gray eyes.
Over Budapest, pirates attack the airship and kidnap Mattie and Yevgeniy, who turns out to be neither Russian nor a businessman. Yevgeniy becomes Obrad Kasun, a Serbian airman turned pirate captain who has been tracking Mattie for months. He tells Mattie that he's sent a ransom to her father, and that she should get comfortable with life on a pirate airship until the money arrives.
But Obrad's dishonesty doesn't stop at false identities on an airship liner. Mattie learns that he never sent a ransom to her father at all, and that her presence on the airship has caused a defunct piece of machinery hidden deep within the decks to whir to life. The tattoo on her hand throbs more painfully every day, until new symbols begin to surface on her skin as the pirate ship sails into Chinese skies.
When Obrad finally reveals the machinery to Mattie, she is struck with a mind-shattering realization: she's seen it before, and she knows what it does. A weapon of untold power, the last time she saw it was when she was just a child and her father stood before it with outstretched hands, lightning flashing from his fingertips.
With the tattoo on her hand shifting into a map to the weapon's power source, Mattie makes a decision: she must escape so the weapon's power doesn't fall into pirate hands. She tries to flee to her father, but then realizes she doesn't know him at all, and can't predict if he'll use the weapon for good or ill. As the pirates sail deeper into China, following her tattoo map, Mattie is trapped once again, and time is running out.
Petra is instantly identified as a thing of legend: the Thirteenth Paladin, and the engineer of this world’s destruction. She must escape the Governor and accomplish Death’s mission, but the more she learns of this world’s history, the more her idea of reality unravels as the deadline for all existence approaches.
The Lightning-Maker's Daughter
When Mattie boards an airship to China, she never imagines that her journey to rejoin her estranged father will result in being kidnapped by pirates who say that her father isn't who he claims to be, and that the tattoo on her hand is the key to unlocking the greatest power in the world.
Matilda Pickering-Smyth is trapped: in a loveless engagement, in a lonely London townhouse, and in a passion-free life where everything is planned out for her by her controlling father in China. A sudden summons from her father lands her on an airship liner, where she befriends Yevgeniy, a wealthy businessman with a thick Russian accent and beautiful gray eyes.
Over Budapest, pirates attack the airship and kidnap Mattie and Yevgeniy, who turns out to be neither Russian nor a businessman. Yevgeniy becomes Obrad Kasun, a Serbian airman turned pirate captain who has been tracking Mattie for months. He tells Mattie that he's sent a ransom to her father, and that she should get comfortable with life on a pirate airship until the money arrives.
But Obrad's dishonesty doesn't stop at false identities on an airship liner. Mattie learns that he never sent a ransom to her father at all, and that her presence on the airship has caused a defunct piece of machinery hidden deep within the decks to whir to life. The tattoo on her hand throbs more painfully every day, until new symbols begin to surface on her skin as the pirate ship sails into Chinese skies.
When Obrad finally reveals the machinery to Mattie, she is struck with a mind-shattering realization: she's seen it before, and she knows what it does. A weapon of untold power, the last time she saw it was when she was just a child and her father stood before it with outstretched hands, lightning flashing from his fingertips.
With the tattoo on her hand shifting into a map to the weapon's power source, Mattie makes a decision: she must escape so the weapon's power doesn't fall into pirate hands. She tries to flee to her father, but then realizes she doesn't know him at all, and can't predict if he'll use the weapon for good or ill. As the pirates sail deeper into China, following her tattoo map, Mattie is trapped once again, and time is running out.
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