Dutton
June 2013
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Featuring: Justin March; Mae Koskinen
464 pages ISBN: 052595368X EAN: 9780525953685 Kindle: B009VMBYLW Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Richelle Mead, the #1 New York Times,USA
Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author
of the Vampire Academy and Bloodlines YA series—whose books
have sold more than one million copies in hardcover—debuts
on the Dutton list with Gameboard of the Gods,
the first novel in her Age of X series.
In a
futuristic world nearly destroyed by religious extremists,
Justin March lives in exile after failing in his job as an
investigator of religious groups and supernatural claims.
But Justin is given a second chance when Mae Koskinen comes
to bring him back to the Republic of United North America
(RUNA). Raised in an aristocratic caste, Mae is now a member
of the military’s most elite and terrifying tier, a soldier
with enhanced reflexes and skills.
When Justin and
Mae are assigned to work together to solve a string of
ritualistic murders, they soon realize that their
discoveries have exposed them to terrible danger. As their
investigation races forward, unknown enemies and powers
greater than they can imagine are gathering in the shadows,
ready to reclaim the world in which humans are merely game
pieces on their board.
Gameboard of the Gods,
the first installment of Richelle Mead’s Age of X series,
will have all the elements that have made her YA Vampire
Academy and Bloodlines series such megasuccesses: sexy,
irresistible characters; romantic and mythological intrigue;
and relentless action and suspense.