The only safe place is in the sky.
We have always wondered what would cause the end of the world—the apocalypse that would eclipse our time here on the planet. We always asked whether it would come from the stars above or the seas below. No one could have anticipated the true cause of the apocalypse and the beginning of the end of life itself. An Armageddon brought on by a being so defenseless and harmless that billions, if not trillions, have been destroyed, burned, dismembered, and broken over millions of years of evolutionary history. As this horrific creature—one that moves with an unearthly flight through the ground and sky—wreaks havoc across the globe, a flight instructor and a botanist, two brothers whose lives are polar opposites, are forced to relocate and attempt to survive a threat that humanity was never prepared for.
This book documents the apocalypse through the eyes of these two brothers, with the stories of many other men and women, listed as Chronicles, intertwined within. Accounts of regular, or even unique, people living as usual until they were caught off guard as the world’s end was brought upon them. As these men and women strive to navigate a world upended and try to make it through hell itself, an incapable humanity fights a being so evolutionary evolved that no one thing can defeat it—and one so great and more numerous than the stars in the sky.
Cyrus Pryce is a young blacksmith apprentice on the tranquil island of Domortis. After spending a week of vacation in his hometown of Casan, Cyrus returns to the bustling city of Purcas, energized to continue his blacksmith training. Upon arriving, his life takes a horrific turn when he witnesses the death of a friend at the hands of ruthless pirates. Spotted by the merciless marauders, Cyrus is kidnapped and taken aboard the Cassandra, a mysterious pirate ship owned by the shady figure Sandian Bullock. Alone and afraid, Cyrus's fate hangs in the balance as the pirate vessel flees his home island and into the treacherous waters of the Marian Sea.
As the Cassandra navigates the precarious ocean, the pirate vessel is attacked by the Pulchra Princess and the Malevolent Mercenary, two formidable raider ships on an important quest to find a concoction to cure a disastrous disease that is eradicating their home island. The Cassandra falls, and Cyrus is taken aboard the Princess. Thrust into the fabled world of piracy, Cyrus must join Kaija McCloud, the intuitive owner of the Princess, and her cousin Jim Robertson, the powerful captain of the Mercenary, on a mission to save their island from a devastating sickness with a harrowing source.
Join Cyrus as he maneuvers through constant danger, tests his courage and resourcefulness against incredible odds, and forges unlikely friendships and alliances that will be tested to their limits on this remarkable odyssey for his and the islands' survival.
