The world desperately needs a miracle. It has been two decades since the Doom the mysterious plague that has killed billions of people first appeared. Now what is left of the planet's human population is divided between the Magicks, and those like the Purity Warriors who believe the Magicks are responsible for the Doom. Fortunately, the earth also has Fallon Swift. Now fully trained in her magical powers, Fallon is determined to free the Magicks who have been enslaved by the Purity Warriors and to create new communities for everyone who survived to live in peace. But in order to do so, Fallon must assemble a coalition of magicks and non-magicks, who will be willing to fight together and banish the evil force behind the Doom once and for all. Deftly wielding her own brand of literary magic, Roberts once again merges mesmerizing characters, inventive plotting, and propulsive pacing as she presents the compulsively readable finale to her altogether bewitching Chronicles of The One trilogy: Year One (2017), Of Blood and Bone (2018).HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: A million-copy, one-day laydown will ensure that the hordes of readers hungry for the conclusion to best-selling Roberts' sf trilogy will be fully satisfied.

Roberts-s rushed-feeling follow-up to 2018-s Of Blood and Bone concludes her Chronicles of the One trilogy, which details how 19-year-old Fallon Swift-who is prophesied to save the world-raises an army to prepare for the ultimate showdown between good and evil. The book is set some 20 years after mankind was nearly eradicated by a virus unleashed by a broken magical shield. The survivors either remained human or evolved into creatures with supernatural powers known as Uncannys. Fallon spends much of this volume making alliances and taking out strongholds run by intolerant humans and Dark Uncannys in a buildup to taking back New York City for the good guys. Fallon-s goal is to deduce the proper time to close the shield that started all this, and to settle the score with her evil cousin Petra. While Roberts retains her ability for using humor to break up the heavy-handedness of fantasy writing, her usually on-point pacing is off. There-s a romance between Fallon and her coleader, Duncan, who had a nicely unfurling flirtation in the previous novel but here go from resisting each other to deeply in love to practically engaged in a heartbeat. Showdowns are built up as epic but end before readers can fully absorb them. Fans will see flashes of Roberts-s talents here, but will wish that she had fleshed things out. 1,000,000-copy announced first printing. (Nov.)