The Atlas Complex

The six Alexandrians return to the library and find that the terms of their recruitment are lethal. They have so far failed to meet the bargain that bought them a place among the Caretakers of the archives, and the cost of that failure now hangs over each of them.

The group splits. Old alliances break apart as the initiates choose opposing strategies for dealing with the deal. Some stay with the archives and wrestle with the ethics of what their extraordinary abilities allow. Elsewhere, an unlikely pair from the Society cohort team up to influence politics on a global stage.

Pressure also comes from outside, where the wider world is mobilizing to destroy them. Meanwhile Atlas Blakely, the Caretaker himself, may yet carry out a plan that has been foreseen to put the world itself at stake.

This is the third and final book of a trilogy that begins with The Atlas Six. It is a dark fantasy driven by betrayal and shifting loyalties, and it asks what each recruit will sacrifice for limitless power and who gets destroyed along the way. Readers new to the series will want to start with the first book.