Ravaged Consent

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Book Two of the Divine Dereliction Series

Deep beneath Manhattan, Azazel lies shattered.

His power is gone. His armies are scattered. The Brilliance Algorithm — the most sophisticated instrument of neural domination ever built — is broken beyond recognition. What was once unstoppable has been reduced to embers, clinging to existence in the dark beneath a city it nearly consumed. 

But embers don't stay cold forever. There is one medicine capable of pulling him back. One substance that can restore what was taken. And it runs through the veins of the innocent. 

Above ground, the Tobor brothers — his most volatile creations — have vanished. Hunted, unraveling, and dangerous in the way only abandoned weapons can be, they must be found before their madness becomes irreversible. Recovery is the first objective. Retribution is the next. 

A plan takes shape in the darkness — methodical, audacious, and decades in the making. Infiltrate the U.S. military. Seize the mechanisms of power. Claim the ultimate prize: the mind and body of the President of the United States. But only if Azazel comes back.

And what crawls out of the darkness may not be what even the Infernal Kingdom remembers.

God draws. He never forces. The other side has no such restraint.

The Magnificently Broken Universe