Kira Solomon is an archaeologist, an antiquities expert,
Shadowchaser for Atlanta's Gilead East, Hand of Truth for
the goddess Ma'at as well as the lover and partner of the
4,000-year-old Nubian warrior Khefar. She is also about to
get the answers she has sought for much of her life, whether
or not she is ready to hear them.
Since being forced to the other side of the veil and being
injected with Shadow, she has been struggling to find
balance within herself. Khefar has promised if Kira turns
totally from the Light, he will unmake her rather than allow
her to become a threat to those she has fought beside.
Keeping that balance has become ever more difficult as she
learns her birth was a result of rape occurring as her
mother fought one of the Shadowlings. Balm, the Leader of
the Light as well as the woman who has stood as foster
mother to her is suddenly silent, while the Egyptian god Set
harries Kira's dreams at night, asking her over and over to
join him in Shadow, and attacking her each time she refuses.
Meanwhile in the 'real' world humans and shadowlings alike
have begun to fall into comas with no medical explanation,
the only connection being their visit to a new (entirely too
realistic) exhibit of the Egyptian Book of the Dead. As Kira
was deeply involved with gathering the artifacts on display,
her immediate superiors in Gilead East are looking upon her
with suspicion.
The world Glass has created is intricate, violent and most
of all based firmly in as much reality as possible. She has
done intensive research regarding the Egyptian Pantheon and
it shows. Even more realistic, in her world the line of
battle between Shadow and Light is not clear cut, many of
the beings stand somewhere along the cusp, and Kira fights
for their sakes as well as the for the sakes those beings
who are fully of the Light. SHADOW FALL is the third book in
the Shadowchasers Series.
Kira Solomon’s life has never been simple. Battling against
the Fallen, serving the Egyptian goddess Ma’at, becoming
romantically involved with a 4,000-year-old Nubian
warrior—these are now everyday realities. But something is
changing. Kira’s magic is becoming dangerously
unpredictable, tainted by the Shadow she has been trained to
destroy.
Matters grow worse when an Atlanta museum
exhibit based on the Egyptian Book of the Dead turns out to
have truly sinister properties. As the body count rises,
even long-trusted allies start to turn against Kira. She can
hardly blame them—not when the God of Chaos is stalking her
dreams and the shocking truth about her origins is finally
coming to light. As one of the good guys, Kira was a force
to be reckoned with. But if the only way to stop a
terrifying adversary is to fight Shadow with Shadow, then
she’s ready to find out just how very bad she can be. . . .
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