NATIONS

Four survivors. Seven crowned beasts. One name at the end of an ancient scroll.

The year is 2519, and the chip in your thumb runs your life. It approves your outfit, scores your wellness, tallies your debt - and pays you for your tragedies.

Odyssa Straz has survived on one mantra. She is lucky to have this job.

Then an explosion tears through a crowded restaurant, and exactly four people walk out of the fire.

Odyssa wakes in Har Marom, the Nation of Light, where a Seraph named Kadiel gives each survivor a gift no one asked for. Eden hears the grief of strangers. Arrow sees the creatures walking among us. Damian is promised armor and an army. And Odyssa - broke, exhausted, unbelieving - can read an outlawed book in a script no scholar on Earth can decipher.

She wants her ordinary life back. Heaven has other plans. So does hell.

Because the Veil that shields the world is down to its last threads, and in the caverns of Gehenna, seven crowned beasts have waited twenty-five centuries for it to fall. Wickedness is patient. Wrath is done waiting.

And on the scroll of every Chosen One who has ever lived, the final name is Odyssa's - marked with a single word.

Postrema. The last one there will ever be.

If she falls, no one comes after her.

Angels. Demons. An algorithm that owns the world. Book One of the Nations trilogy - for readers of who want a dystopian fantasy with its soul intact.