Journey Into the Flame: Book One of the Rising World Trilogy
The year is 2057, 30 years after the Great Disruption, when a solar storm smacked into Earth and threw the planet off its axis, plunging the world into apocalyptic chaos. Near an abandoned campfire, a man finds some ancient books, the Chronicles of Satraya, in a leather satchel. Four decades later, the world is more technologically advanced than it ever was, thanks to the teachings of the Chronicles, several sets of which were found around the world. When a struggling artist, Logan Cutler, decides to auction off his own copies of the books, he discovers that some people are extremely interested in getting their hands on them—interested enough to commit murder. A group known as Reges Hominum has existed in the shadows of society for centuries and now sees an opportunity to seize full control of the world, if they can obtain all copies of the Chronicles, and one set remains to be found. This race-against-time, postapocalyptic adventure keeps us flipping the pages, and the book’s wide-open ending cries out for volume two (this is the first of a projected trilogy). --David Pitt