Gears & gladiators collide in this epic tale of divine proportions. Journey back to a time before time, when innocence reigned, and evil was still an unused variable.

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Heaven's light is going out. And the Trees of Life are failing.​ 

Nobody knows who Michael is. Not even Michael. He’s endured horrors no indoctrinated, half-witted angel would ever believe. Survived on scraps, been humiliated— painted by candlelight while hiding in holes. But when a mysterious cloaked figure rescues him, he’s thrust into some perfect utopia he doesn’t fit into.

 

Obsessed with revenge, he abandons his art to become the most vicious gladiator Heaven’s pits have ever seen. But with no record of his existence, his path to vengeance seems hopeless—until Lucifer offers a chance to fight for Universal Technologies, the secretive project on Eastern Island.

 

There he meets Trudy, a computer scientist—and quite possibly the only atheist in Heaven. When she uncovers a terrifying new threat, nobody will believe her. That is, until she meets the Precept, the Tinker, and the Pious-Pontificator.

 

As the darkness closes in, can Michael and Trudy unbury the mysteries that will save the worlds? Or will the gates of paradise—and everything else—crumble to ash?