The Woken Gods

The more things change... Ten years ago, the gods of ancient mythology awoke all around the world. The more things stay the same... This morning, seventeen-year-old Kyra Locke was late for school. But that s not out of the ordinary in a transformed Washington, D.C., dominated by the embassies of divine pantheons and watched over by the mysterious Society of the Sun that governs mankind s relations with the gods. What is unusual is Kyra s encounter with two trickster gods on her way home, one offering a threat, and the other a warning. Kyra escapes with the aid of young operatives from the Society, who inform her that her scholarly father has disappeared from its headquarters at the Library of Congress and taken a dangerous Egyptian relic with him. The Society needs the item back, and they aren t interested in Kyra s protests that she knows nothing about it. Now Kyra must depend on her wits and the help of everyone from a paranoid ex-boyfriend to scary Sumerian gods to operatives whose allegiance is first and always to the Society. She has no choice if she s going to clear her father s name and recover the missing relic before the impending summer solstice. What s at stake? Just the end of the world as Kyra knows it. From the author of Blackwood comes a fresh, thrilling urban fantasy that will appeal to fans of Neil Gaiman, Cassandra Clare, and Rick Riordan...