Description
Celeste, a card sharp with a need for justice, takes on the role of advocatus diaboli, to defend her sister Mariel, accused of murdering a Virtue, a member of the ruling class of this mining town, in a new world of dark fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse.
High in the remote mountains, the town of Goetia is booming as prospectors from near and far come to mine the powerful new element Divinity. Divinity is the remains of the body of the rebel Abaddon, who fell to Earth during Heaven's War, and it powers the world's most most inventive and innovative technologies, ushering in a new age of progress. However, only the descendants of those who rebelled, called the Fallen, possess the ability to see the rich loads of the precious element. That makes them a necessary evil among the good and righteous people called the Elect, and Goetia a town segregated by ancestry and class.
High in the remote mountains, the town of Goetia is booming as prospectors from near and far come to mine the powerful new element Divinity. Divinity is the remains of the body of the rebel Abaddon, who fell to Earth during Heaven's War, and it powers the world's most most inventive and innovative technologies, ushering in a new age of progress. However, only the descendants of those who rebelled, called the Fallen, possess the ability to see the rich loads of the precious element. That makes them a necessary evil among the good and righteous people called the Elect, and Goetia a town segregated by ancestry and class.
Celeste and Mariel are two Fallen sisters, bound by blood but raised in separate worlds. Celeste grew up with her father, passing in privileged Elect society, while Mariel stayed with their mother in the Fallen slums of Goetia. Upon her father's death, Celeste returns to Goetia and reunites with Mariel. Mariel is a great beauty with an angelic voice, and Celeste, racked with guilt for having left her sister behind, becomes her fiercest protector.
When Mariel is accused of murdering a Virtue, a member of the powerful Order of the Archangels that rule Goetia, Celeste must take on the role of advocatus diaboli and defend her sister in the secretive courts of the Virtue. Celeste, aided by her ex-lover, Abraxas, who was once one of the rebels' great generals, sets out to prove Mariel's innocence. But powerful forces among the Virtues and the Elect mining barons don't want Celeste prying into their business, and Mariel has secrets of her own to protect, in this dark fantasy from the bestselling mastermind Rebecca Roanhorse.
Info
ISBN: 9781982166182
Published Date: November 15, 2022
Publisher: Saga Press
Language: English
Page Count: 201
Size: 7.27" l x 5.29" w x 0.78" h
Category
Fiction