A mysterious vigilante meets Scheherazade in high-tech Ancient Atlantis, set against the backdrop of an impending global apocalypse.
On the last day of Atlantis,
When it sank beneath the waters,
Sons and Daughters of Atlantis
Sailed their ships toward the stars.
Earth, 10,504 B.C.E.
A deadly asteroid sent by alien gods is about to strike Ancient Atlantis.
In the high-tech Imperial capital, Poseidon, the decadent ruling elites rush to build ark-ships to flee to the stars, leaving the impoverished masses to perish when the Sky Rock hits-with one exception. The Imperial Kassiopei Dynasty and the noble Great Houses hold Service Competitions to pick those best qualified to serve them.
Street-smart sixteen-year-old Semmi, fired from her darkness shift job at an industrial warehouse, witnesses a mysterious vigilante known as the Man in the Niktos Cloak and accidentally discovers his impossible secret identity.
Powerful nobleman by day-deadly vigilante by night-and the anonymous star of the most popular and hottest adult drama on Atlantean video, Benaten Bisfuri is an irresistible man of many contradictions.
To keep his secrets, and keep her quiet, Benaten must hire Semmi to work for him. Desperate for employment, and frightened for her family, she must accept the job. Soon, she's embroiled in Imperial Court politics and a complex plot to save the people who will be left behind-all while competing in the brutal Service Competitions to earn a coveted spot on an ark-ship. She also finds her fate entwined with the uncanny Imperial Princess Arlenari who just might hold the key to everyone's salvation.
Before the Sky Rock strikes Earth-bringing about the Great Flood, reprising an Ice Age, and changing the face of the planet forever-Semmi must discover her own abilities to win a place for herself and her loved ones.
A place on the Ark.
EOS is book one of the series Dawn of the Atlantis Grail.
Nazarian, Vera: - VERA NAZARIAN is a two-time Nebula Award Finalist, 2018 Dragon Award Finalist, award-winning artist, a member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, and the author of the high-octane adventure YA dystopian apocalyptic science fiction series THE ATLANTIS GRAIL that has been optioned for film, and is in development as a major motion picture franchise or TV series. As a double refugee, after immigrating from the USSR during the Cold War, and then escaping from the Civil War in Lebanon (by way of Greece), she spent 35 years in Los Angeles, California. She now lives with several wacky cats in a small town in Vermont and uses her Armenian sense of humor and her Russian sense of suffering to bake conflicted pirozhki and make art.Other work includes critically acclaimed novels DREAMS OF THE COMPASS ROSE and LORDS OF RAINBOW, the outrageous parodies MANSFIELD PARK AND MUMMIES and NORTHANGER ABBEY AND ANGELS AND DRAGONS, and PRIDE AND PLATYPUS: MR. DARCY'S DREADFUL SECRET in her humorous Supernatural Jane Austen Series, as well as the historical (Renaissance) epic fantasy trilogy COBWEB BRIDE.Her official author website is veranazarian.com
