Publisher's Synopsis
The world has changed since the Order of the Gatekeepers defended the royalty of Atlantis and fought a bitter civil war to defeat the nefarious Elder Shades and their dream of conquest. Although ruined and beneath the waves, the legacy of Atlantean civilization imposes itself upon the present day and calls for Justice even now. A timeless weapon has heard the call to arms.Once the old magic and a good sword were all the Gatekeepers needed to hunt down and destroy traitorous agents of the past, but no longer. The curtain of Gatekeeper invincibility has been pulled away and what was once time-honored tradition is now obsolete. The greatest organization in the world has lost its way and surrendered to ambition and greed. Fallen enemies fail to stay dead. Invigorated with the use of technology, the oldest of foes, the shadow legions, renew their quest for humankind's destruction. A Gatekeeper's noblest task was once to slay an adversary, but soon it may require dispatching a friend.While inflicted all around, a Gatekeeper knows that his greatest trial is from within: the dreaded stutter-flutter stalks every immortal whose long years weary the body too much. Now, when Frank's secret past catches up with him, his wife Adrienne is forcibly carried away into a world she never imagined existed. Ancient societies, clandestine histories, psychotic immortals and trans-dimensional invasion are all in play as Adrienne finds herself bait in a gambit over five millennia in the making. In their endeavor to find her, Frank and his colleague Orion are shocked to discover that not only is Adrienne in mortal peril, but the entire human race as well. Thousands of years ago, they destroyed Atlantis. Now the rest of the world is about to follow her into destruction.
