The gods are supposed to sleep. Something is waking them. The lock is broken. The careful, machine-perfect order that kept the world running is coming apart town by town - and out in the cold, something that was never meant to stir is beginning to wake. Laura wanted to fix what she broke. Instead she's learning the truth the gods spent an age keeping quiet: the order was never a gift. It was a lid.
And now that it's cracked, everyone is about to find out what was being held under it. Funny, strange, and steadily darkening, The Waking is Book Two of the Saint Machine trilogy - the middle of an apocalypse with a sense of humor, where the jokes go quieter and the stakes turn personal.
The gods are supposed to sleep. Something is waking them. The lock is broken. The careful, machine-perfect order that kept the world running is coming apart town by town - and out in the cold, something that was never meant to stir is beginning to wake. Laura wanted to fix what she broke. Instead she's learning the truth the gods spent an age keeping quiet: the order was never a gift. It was a lid.
And now that it's cracked, everyone is about to find out what was being held under it. Funny, strange, and steadily darkening, The Waking is Book Two of the Saint Machine trilogy - the middle of an apocalypse with a sense of humor, where the jokes go quieter and the stakes turn personal.