The Bridgefinders' headquarters has been turned against them.
Marcus — a colleague, a trained operative, someone who knew the building's every corridor — has seized the Keystone and sealed every door. Jasmine wakes on a stone floor in a storage room, her magical focus stolen, the building's AI reduced to a thread.
Outside, Cendan presses his palms against walls that have been instructed to reject him, and works to find the door the building forgot it had. In the Echo, something worse is coming. Grellnot exists to consume magic — has always existed for this — and the Echo's creatures are fleeing his advance in mass-flight. The Slyph's engineered army, hundreds strong, is running from a predator that does not tire and does not stop.
Two enemies. One internal, one existential. A building, a machine consciousness, three magical traditions, and the last chance to make something that holds. The Echo Worlds concludes.
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Marcus — a colleague, a trained operative, someone who knew the building's every corridor — has seized the Keystone and sealed every door. Jasmine wakes on a stone floor in a storage room, her magical focus stolen, the building's AI reduced to a thread.
Outside, Cendan presses his palms against walls that have been instructed to reject him, and works to find the door the building forgot it had. In the Echo, something worse is coming. Grellnot exists to consume magic — has always existed for this — and the Echo's creatures are fleeing his advance in mass-flight. The Slyph's engineered army, hundreds strong, is running from a predator that does not tire and does not stop.
Two enemies. One internal, one existential. A building, a machine consciousness, three magical traditions, and the last chance to make something that holds. The Echo Worlds concludes.
Genre: Urban Fantasy
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