Fallen

Alex Verus used to be a diviner who kept his head down and stayed out of trouble. Now he sits on the Light Council, with some success to his name, friends around him and a relationship with the life mage Anne.

That position has cost him. The Council is investigating him, and if investigators uncover the truth, he stands to lose everything he has built. Every meeting and every favour now carries the risk of exposure.

Outside the Council, his old master, the Dark mage Richard Drakh, is fighting a war against it. Drakh is also preparing a move that would put both Alex and Anne under his control.

Caught between a hostile Council and a dangerous former master, Alex has little time left. Protecting the people he cares about will demand that he become something different, and something darker. The question is how far he will go, and what remains of him afterward.

The book is the tenth in the Alex Verus urban fantasy series, which takes place in a hidden magical London. Readers who have followed the earlier books will find a man pushed toward the edge of what he has always refused to be.