Divinities, Entangled

His partner defected; his new one may be a weapon waiting for the right word.

The world does not end all at once. First, the paperwork adjusts. Riots erupt "spontaneously." Surveillance introduces itself as protection. And a man confined for rescuing his Watcher partner from a cult is released early by the architect of his cage.

Robert Goldner wants his old duty back: recovering missing children as a Watcher agent of the Isaac-Abraham Institution, the secretive nonprofit that recruits gifted, plagued survivors of the White Fire Virus. Instead, the Institution assigns him a new partner: Ava Darden, the amnesiac girl he helped pull out of a den of drugs and thieves, who believes she is an angel, and whom he has never quite trusted.

Ava can remember her Sunday School lessons; the last eighteen months of her life belong to someone else. Her amnesia was engineered, and somewhere in the architecture of her mind waits a trigger, verbal or visual, that will complete her.

At Ava's side, for Robert alone, the world behaves less and less like itself. Again and again, his sight flickers between America and XynKroma, as though Reality has developed a weak seam. At the center of that seam is a terrible proposition: the Creator is extinguishing itself to finish Creation, and every power that promises to prevent the end, from governments to terrorist art-cults, is already deciding who will be carried into the finished world, and who will become material.

Divinities, Entangled carries Eve of Light into full apocalypse: Dark Metaphysical Fantasy — poisoned angels, weaponized memory, and sincere monsters arguing over the remains of God.