Angels of the Dark and the Light

"Angels of the Dark and the Light" continues the story of Aaron Grayman and the Passur Cleric family in 1801. After flooding the Capitol Dome to paralyze the government, Elder Pieter Lomanov has perished in his attempt to kill Aaron, his wife Nacetti, and their fiancé, Shana Annavan. Arriving safely in Yucanna Dome, the family is taken to a massive structure – the Citadel, the religious center of the Atlantean Republic. Built high over the Dome's south side, for hundreds of years, it has been the home of the Six High Priestesses and the Cleric Capital for the Rödd. They begin new lives while continuing their planned rescue of Shana's twin sister Lana from an assassin. Both are on the asteroid miner Nile Delta and out of normal communication with Earth on the far side of the sun. Nassetti's cousin, Haägar Sola, Captain of the new runabout Fullt Tungl, is sent on a dangerous, never-before-attempted rescue of Lana. If it fails, it will leave her stranded to die in the cold void. However, her assassin, Vicereine Fastell, has not been there willingly. She has become Lana's lover yet faces death if she fails to complete her mission. Moreover, she holds a secret within her body of one of the most depraved crimes of Lomanov's Cabal. Vaalkáis Kyy, Lomanov's protégé who delivered Fastell to him for his plot, has miraculously escaped the sinking mini-submarine in which he perished. But, trapped for over a day in the tiny escape pod caught in a hurricane, she is seriously injured and marooned on a small island. There, she faces her own personal horrors worse than any she before imagined. Kyy's efforts to save herself have placed Admiral Lisil Pacella and the crew of the Blackship Defender in danger of being sunk by any Atlantean Blackship they encounter. In a desperate race against time and events, they must find her to save themselves. It will then allow Pacella to recover data she saved before the Atlantean Archives were destroyed; the only means to prevent the overthrow of Atlanteas by Lomanov's angry and vengeful former protégé, now known as the Asian-Atlantean Empress Shakti Kappas. The action and danger ratchet up in volume 3 of the Archives of Atlanteas.